I also filed during that time.My income would allow me to spend 200-230k on a home, although I'm not prequalified for anything.

I was wondering how to budget since I’ll have to pay outright and won’t see tax benefits until later or even only until I sell.

My budget is more like 250-350k, with around 50-75k down.

My biggest marketing budget is to my sphere of influence.

They claimed they needed to let someone go due to a budget restriction, and it may as well be me because I’m moving on anyway and clearly have something to move into.

This is why you budget and create a reserve funds.

I did about 35 buy/fix/sell/rent houses in Ohio over the years and got bogged down in repairs, repair people problems and budget problems.How much fix up do you think is worthy and doable before a project gets to be a real pain?

I'll round the numbers for the purpose of this discussion but basically we paid $440k for the property and have a planned reno budget of $100k.

I'm around 95% accurate these days, but when I first started I usually went 10-20% over budget when working on my own properties.  

Hey Arturo,If you have included the architect costs in your budget, then it should.