I’m sorry for all the sifting your gunna have to do with my long post but good luck man and congrats on your baby! 

If you can sift through the dross and find the one or two gold nuggets hiding in the pan with problematic applicants, you have a tenant who is going to stay with you forever because they know their next lodging is a cardboard box if they screw up.

In addition, I have sifted through the city's website and cannot find anything that said a wood privacy fence cannot be erected in a flood zone (giving him the benefit of the doubt here).My question is if they come back and say that it must be taken down what should I do?

I have many offers on the property @ $1600 and $1500 respectively that i'm sifting through.assuming they don't all fall through i'm in effectively for no money out of pocket and $3100 in cashflow - the mortgage which should be in the 2k range after the refinance.  

When I'm sifting through potential investments I do a simple rough estimate using the 4 square system to evaluate the potential cash flow.

Lots of great info here for you to sift through. 

The division of labor will look something like this:Me: Find deals, fund deals.Partner: Rehab/build out/oversee contract laborMy partner is a remodeler with experience and contacts, he just doesn't have the access to funding and doesn't have the time/patience to sift through potential deals.

Numbers are getting tight in all markets, so, take your time in sifting through the proformas provided.

They love sifting through the data to find the hidden diamond.

I have a Cole Realty Resources account the gets my home and cell phone numbers for neighborhoods. The problem is, I need to filter my lists to find houses with equity, or houses that were purchased more then 5 years a...