If you want to skim coat it yourself, you need: 8 & 12 inch drywall knives, a mud bucket, a 5 gallon bucket for mixing, 45 or 90 minute drywall mix, and a bucket of premixed drywall mud.

One of my bucket list items is to have a million dollars in equity (and a LOT of debt) by 40 years of age.

Most of the rehab Investors  because it is so competitive have to get their remodel costs as low as possible so they will go with johnny lunch bucket who needs a draw to start and be paid once a week and cannot carry a job.. when you do that you expect to get better pricing. and its much like running a restaurant you can have great help but on a busy Friday 2 of your staff may not show...

I expect the super-heated nature of the present market will be temporary, but I would be happy to be wrong.If there is downward pricing pressure in the future, as I think is likely, I will have a bucket of cash to make sure I can pounce on new opportunities. 

The rest fall into the shoulda-kept it as a rental bucket. 

When you only have $100 a month in cash flow, and you are banking on cash flow instead of appreciation to make money and lets say a sink has a minor leak, you chose not to pay someone to go fix it and just put a bucket under the sink and forget about it. 12 months later, you have a major water problem that has gone from a $150 issue to a 4k issue, that you still do not have the money to fix.

I let them know that I appreciate them keeping up with the cleaning but asked them to start filling a bucket to do the cleaning and explained that water is expensive as well as a luxury here in Chicago (I know people in California who can't even water their gardens).

The bucket was halfway filled with South African Krugerrands and American Eagle gold coins.

It’s really a big ticket for me.We bought a 17 yard dump trailer and a little GC1705 tractor with a bucket after our first hoarder house.

I do not readily have a compilation break-down for ROI in a readily presentable manner, although I think it's a great point and now in my "A-Bucket" to get that added into metrics spreadsheet system.