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When priced and marketed right, most properly run places keep busy in the off-season.3.

If your agent isn't up to the task of a proper job in marketing, that's a problem.  

Do not even consider this without a proper legal contract.

The FHA loan is a great product but if you have a good credit score, good income and a reasonable DTI, you have a lot more options. 

They are presenting an intriguing new mortgage product with an interest-only component at a Meetup I’m a regular at in case you happen to be free.

However as long as you're using the proper documents and using an attorney you're safe.Hope that helps,Chris Pre

but it does kick the can down the road.Best solution:  REFI cash outof your other cash houses and fix this one correctly and get top rent.You are looking too closely at cost avoidance and not at what you'd get if you found the cash and properly fixed:  better tenant, top rent. 

Been an owner for 4-5 years, learned quite a few things already, among which is that a commercial kitchen is not something to be made or modified lightly - it has to be properly designed and properly made in order to function well.So I have this retail store of about 1100 sqft that someone wants to take for a small coffee shop with the ability to bake.My question is where do I start searching for someone to design/compute small walk-in cooler, grease trap, vent-a-hood, stove and HVAC on top of that so all this could become useable without anyone getting burned.From my past experience I have local mexican crews who can do any and all of the listed things and they'd do them relatively well except they won;t ever be designed to actually work well together.On the other end of the spectrum I've worked with american general contractors and they tend to cost 2-3 times the Mexican crews and, at least in my case, ended up delivering about same end result (in all fairness it was only kitchen remodeling, not design from ground up; but statement stands valid and I was able to later do almost the same at literally third of the cost).Your expertise is appreciated.

On the other hand, can you put that drive time to productive use?