Your property has issues.To take those issues on for an investor or group requires a certain price point in selling.These reports you mentioned are usually MACRO and mean nothing as it is a blended rate with varying properties that are similar but very different as well.Unless this report was a MICRO report I would not give it much weight as to what CAPS are trading at.

I'm a salesperson by trade and I think I could have sold it by now.

I have experience in the trades and am comfortable doing the majority of rehabs/repairs on my first few properties.Well that's a short intro, I'll be sure to post other specifics in separate topics.And thank you, I've read through many threads and links.

Yes it can increase your future earning power, but at the same time there are trade offs to that as well.

Exceptions for "sort of" full time non-trade blue collar help to do the grunt labor abound in communities of 50+ paying and occupied pads.While I was mostly involved in very large communities, I did a couple of small community turnarounds - both about 50 pads each.

Trading into a new property soley on the basis of being able to do a 1031 exchange does not seam like it would be a real strong reason to do so.

Even further, FCI for example, does not report mortgage trade lines to the credit repositories, so if the strategy is to see them refinance away from you, ensure they are getting credit for making payments on time via your mortgage servicer.4.

I was visiting with BP member Danny Day at his current renovation and during our conversation it came up that we should try and get some of the Houston BP members together to network and trade stories.So let's set a day for May 7th at 6:30pm at Block 7 Wine Company in the Heights.

Some of this you can get in college and some of it is better to learn in trade schools or by reading forums and blogs.

You seem to be a jack of all trades - good luck.Chris