Potentially I can be involved in R.E. full or part time, as my non-R.E. activities give me flexibility.There was an excellent post somewhere else on this forum (can't remember where I saw it), saying that to make money, you have to add value.

Your best bet for determining a true CMA (comparable market analysis) is to use a trained pro.

Wow, I bet he's been waiting over 2 years for that info...Just kidding

We each have our own interests, preferences, comfort zone and I just can't agree that everyone needs to be involved in RE as implied.No disrespect intended...

I would think that having the kitchen and living room upstairs and the bedrooms downstairs would be the best bet, but moving plumbing can be costly.

I know people who get involved and start investing in their 20's seem to make it.

Foreclosure notices in one way or another will be posted at the local courthouse.Your best bet is to do mailouts and contacting them face to face.

This will give you a rough estimate of their payoff and the extra fees involved in a preforeclosure.

Google stays away from dynamic pages with lengthy URLs and those which look to the robots they will be changed often.Pages that remain the same are the best bet to be crawled and indexed.

I'm a complete noob to all things REI, but I've been pouring over blogs and forums for the past week or so trying to get a feel for if it's something I want to get involved in.