Equity established isn't taxable until it's sold and that can be deferred.Buying no or low equity deals means sharpening your pencil, looking for value elsewhere and allowing time to improve your position.

Go to the neighbors, if it is a gated community, ask the security guard, and then there is also going to the home improvement stores and asking around or getting there first thing when the contractors and trades people start their day.

How can you revitalize the inner city and improve older housing stock in the suburbs without volume rehabbing?

We can do a remote session with TeamViewer or something like that, so you can kind of point me in the right direction.Once I understand it better, I think I can expand and improve on what we started, but I need someone to help me get a self inflicted kick in the pants.

Bottom line is to have a plan to improve the property management and force appreciation.

Try not to tie-in substantial lessee improvements with the option exercise. 5.

There were changes in December that improved Homepath for Investors.

You say you got great prices when you bought -- perhaps the market improved enough that you could do well selling a few and moving into a different property?

But if you add in all the interest, taxes, insurance, maintenance and major improvements you make along the way, its rarely a good investment.

Since you are on the board , run it like a business , get the reserves built up , raise the dues , protect your and your fellow owners assets by getting maintenance done , basic improvements , and good cash reserves.