There are thousands of existing threads that can help you answer your questions about acquiring funding, structuring deals, etc.

Despite working with several customers in the industry (my other business), I'm not a fan of having several hundred or thousand gallons of heating fuel (essentially diesel) sitting around our rental properties.

My old land lord had that problem with a tenant that dragged them in one of his apartments and he had to spend thousands of dollars to get rid of them.

Not that this is my general attitude, but I am not going out of my way and put a fancy tankless water heater or a high-eff. furnace in, for example.I agree that spending thousands to make a rental property a little more energy efficient makes a poor investment.

I need your thoughts on this one........Its come to my notice that curently there is a black gold rush in Williston, North Dakota and that the Bakken Formation Project is all over the US news...Companies are rushing there to create units for the thousands of workers who are in desperate need of housing.My concerns are..............does it make sense to invest in these units?

Properties cost tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Only 1 emailed me back and they wanted several thousand dollars per property which made no sense to me.

It is such a unique property in unique location comps dont even come close to comparing...How do I put A value on it,,cant tease the city and say how much you give for it and sell it to another.They get ticked off they can find a thousand problems till they run out whoever owns it.

Recently we were able to visit the property physically and found a thousand dollars worth of damage not reported.

Some states think they have thousands of these.“This is the most important issue of the whole mortgage mess because families are being thrown out of their homes by people who may not have the right to do that,†said Glenn Russell, a Fall River, Massachusetts, real estate attorney who won a case last year that reversed a foreclosure because of faulty paperwork.Mark and Tammy LaRace, his clients, were able to move back into their Cape Cod-style house in Springfield, Massachusetts, more than two years after they were evicted.In February, Judge Keith Long of the Massachusetts Land Court reaffirmed his 2009 decision to return the house to the LaRaces.