(I assume they steam cleaned it) Now I feel that I spent 200k on something that was completely misrepresented.

I fully realize there are some progressive companies out there, and CRE tech is starting to gain steam, but we are still 100 years behind other industries and it's up to us to drive institutional change and improvement. 

I had one prospective tenant ask for the carpets to be steamed.

Where I come from we call that a steaming pile of dog$#it. 

This is a relatively new type of investment product but I expect it has gained more steam in recent years.

Rachel Rodriguez - I own a web design company specializing in email marketing, e-commerce, social media, SEO and steaming media.I'd highly recommend constant contact and Mail chimp.

Bill when the crisis hit.. it was early on set in Detroit.. started before the rest of the country it had gain steamed but then as you know there was some real melt downs there were nice little neighborhoods with these brick homes were selling for peanuts 1k to 3k..most were stripped or barely habitable at that point.. guys were buying them for 1 to 3k never looking at them selling them to renters basically for 200k down and 400 a month 20 to 30k on land contracts as is.. folks would kind of move in.. strip the neighboring houses. to get these habitable these had about a 90% default rate in two years.. :)  you see the same in Texas in some markets preying on non English speaking.. buy a house for 10 or 15k sell it on contract for 50k without doing anything to it to a non English speaker on terms.there was a guy boasting about it on BP and he finally got ran off the site..  

We've done subdivisions that cost 6 figures.There are municipal costs, engineering costs, survey costs, soil costs, flood, wetlands, steams, and historic considerations.You need to know what the zoning actually is and what are permitted uses as well as minimum criteria like, lot size, lot width, setbacks, etc.

NOW.Thanks for letting me blow off some steam!!!!

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