utm_source=search&utm_medium=internal&utm_campaign=books (books recommended by BPers)Before making your 1st REI purchase please visit the link below for some useful tipshttps://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2014/12/19/real-estate-investing-success-smart-tips/Simply, bone up on the areas that you need to expand knowledge in such as, Forums, Marketplace, Learn, Network, Analyze and Resources.Continue to feast on the Podcasts, #askbp Podcasts, blogs and webinars Lastly, this site thrives on interactions and as such we encourage two way exchanges and look forward to educational and thought provoking ideas relevant to REI.

It's not perfect but it usually gives me a good rough idea when figuring new construction.

Perfect for managing!  

@Benjamin KopfWelcome to the BP community, where you will find like minded individuals committed to REI and also helping others succeed.Your time on this social media site will be well spent.I see that you are in search of a mentor and that's great, but, in the interim you can bone up on the basics so that your mentor's time will be focused on higher level learning.

What a perfect opportunity you had & turned it into a profitable success!

After I received a call that "it don't be workin", I found that it was full of chicken bones.

Thanks for the call out, it's storming here in Indy, the kids and wife are resting, so a perfect time to BP.

Some forms of equity isn't always easily accesible.A project with razor thin margins but from an applicant with an almost perfect credit score, doesn't necessarily soothe the nerves of the hard money lender.

However; now that cabinets are going in, I am kicking myself for not staying with the 14, it would have been a huge feature, and worked perfectly! 

In a perfect world I would take an Inspector to do a quick look over and have the GC price out what the Inspector saw.