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There’s something straightforward about Craigslist. The bare-bones format, the anonymity, the strange and wonderful oddities you discover. You can learn a lot about a community by seeing just [...]

Rewind about a decade when finding properties to purchase and renovate was a relative walk in the park. All you had to do is canvass a neighborhood to find one distressed property after the next. [...]

Whenever I tell people that I buy, rehab, and sell distressed properties for a living, the first question out of their mouth is about how I get the cash. My answer: easily. There’s no question [...]

Memphis is a big city, but it’s also a small town. If you know who you’re looking for, and you keep your eyes open, chances are you’ll eventually run into them. And so, for many years, I used to [...]

I recently hired a contractor I found online here in Toledo. He’s great—he knows the city and has that special Toledo hard-work ethic. He’s one of the best electricians I’ve ever met. But, he [...]