quote:Originally posted by Shrewd Crude

as you mention in your 14 step program...Paint paper, simple plumbing, carpentry jobs, doing up one room at a time, gardening... how many hundreds of hours am I looking at?
Macdunk probably doesn't follow his own advice, particularly 7, 8 and 10.

Simultaneously having tenants and doing up rooms? Having to top up your equity after 3 years so you can match rent with outgoings???

There is indeed good money for builders/renovators like Macdunk who buy houses in the right location in need of TLC, do them up, and flick them off for a good profit. But builders do not put up the renovated properties for rent afterwards, they sell as quickly as possible for the capital gain. That's where the money is - NOT the rent.