Welcome to BiggerPockets @John Weidner, it's always great to have an industry professional, that's active on the investor side as well, join our ranks!

I wanted to treat it more professionally, at least from a documentation perspective.

If a home will be vacant for a long time during winter it is wise to have a professional "winterize" the home with water shut-offs, blowing air through the pipes, and antifreeze added to all the drains.Hope that helps you and others in the future.

There is no 2% rule police who will swoop down and slap your hand if you don't use that metric.It is a predictor across large numbers of strength of the investment.It isn't all that useful on any given property.

“They’re neighborhoods where we will help local efforts to meet one National goal: that a child’s course in life should be not by the ZIP code she’s born in, but by the strength of her work ethic and the scope of her dreams,” the President said.The cities selected for the first zones are Los Angeles, Philadelphia and San Antonio, while the Kentucky zone covers a multicounty region in the southeastern Highlands area.

Maybe you should consider shifting gears and playing to your strengths...

(This may be because my professional background is in teaching.)My short term goal is to wholesale and/or rehab in order to pay off student loans that have been around for too long and to build a bigger savings.

I noticed this post is four years old but there are many Milwaukee professionals here.

Hello All, I've been a full-time IT professional for 17+ years.

We've installed and finished our own hardwood flooring but decided having that professionally installed and finished is money well spent.