Found this "Treasure" while pulling out some carpet in a bathroom.Nothing good comes from carpeting a bathroom.

Is high equity absentee owners list still a good list to pull in Washington DC? 

In fact, a good agent will inform you that they can pull the listing-let you make the needed repairs and then put it back on the market.

I bought my first rental property as a foreclosure for $33k, put about $7k down and $5k rehab cash into it, and I was just able to refinance and cash out with an appraisal of $65k, pulling enough cash out to do it two more times immediately.

It's a tight market so I am thinking of pulling the trigger.

The bank may have done what it needed to do to pull the property out of the bankruptcy but you do not want to make that determination on your own.

He wanted to pull out some money to use towards buying another building.  

dl=0Being good at "terms"  deals is not easy, using "NLP" and objection handling,  it takes a while to be good at it.Above is a link and if you take your time with yellow pad and a pen, you should be able to pull things out that will help you negotiate well"Bon Chance"

Now that I officially know about the mold, I may have to pay about $20K (2 estimates so far) to clean it up, taking it back to the studs in some places, pulling back the baseboards in others, then cleaning with sporicide and doing air scrubbing in order to get an official clean bill of health since i can't rent or sell without that, having officially established that I have mold.

ALSO, there are things the insurance allowed for that were never done; cabinet knobs/pulls (none installed), dump runs (we did all that), a bedroom that was not even in the damage zone, a powder room they said they did, but we did the whole thing...