Kristi, My father taught me to swim the old fashioned way, he just threw me into the American River one summer day, sink or swim, it is amazing how quickly you can learn to swim under those conditions.I used the same technique when I started my investing the same way, I figured I would find out what I needed to learn when I ran into a problem and believe me your a lot more motivated to find out the answer when your standing in quicksand.

A healthy debate is one thing, but often times you don't see that when a post gets a running and usually it's because someone feels threatened in some fashion or offended.This post as it started, and why I chimed in to begin with, had merit and validity.

When the six is completed and performing, we will start pulling apart the 12 ... it is built in the classic H-block fashion of its day, so we could pull apart 1-side of the building at a time.I would start with bringing an inspector or contractor through and, based on the findings, you may want to bring in an engineer (structural), electrician, HVAC, plumber, etc to get a full idea of what you are about to digest.Congratulations, sounds like an exciting adventure ahead.

Probably in the least this is a 400K project but you're in Jersey so it's got to be much much higher than it would be here in Kansas, unless you're buying slum low down junk that you shouldn't be looking at anyway.This would be a pretty lengthy and involved decision and you would need to have a lot of knowledge about a wide variety of things to even approach this kind of project.Most people will probably try to help guide you in some fashion and by all means please don't think I'm trying to be negative or have a mean tone to my text here.

Lastly, I was assured on multiple occasions that as long as get my documents sent in a timely fashion that I will close on time.

I'd work some of them the old fashioned way, knock on their doors !  

The good news is that lazy investors thinking they can pluck sweet deals of the MLS will give up and the hard working ones like us will scrape up our deals the old fashioned way...

It depends who formats the information in a fashion that suits your needs.

it's got the old fashioned diners vibe.  

Start with  a letter of intent then let them fashion a final binding contract.If the attorney thinks your skimming her clients equity that's another issue.