Tickets are cheaper earlier, but jump in if/when you can, or call in sick!!!

They might own multiple properties or receive a special discount having all insurance at the provider and your insurance rate is much higher for a single policy.Make sure not in a flood plain as those policies have gone way up in the last few years almost doubling or tripling.Many other things these are often overlooked.   

As far as motivation he WANTS to sell it because he is sick of paying taxes on the property which he isn’t even using.

I'd be happy to send mine if you'd like a third version, realizing it is a different state.I think it is important to have plain English documents, and lawyers really struggle with keeping things simple.  

The details make me sick.  

You need to expect it to make you money eventually, I suppose, but what I'm getting here is you're saying  'it's not investing unless it cash flows' which I'd say is just plain wrong.

I was SICK over that one, but I just wasn't in a position to buy when it came up. 

I have done a couple plain vanilla deals and have one long-term investment property.  

Just because during off hours I can go from my office on Mill Plain to my house in SE Portland in only 20min, the majority of the time, the traffic is really bad and I have heard horror stories of it taking 3 hours to go 15 miles....

People are sick of the traffic and will live closer to where they work and intown neighborhoods are more in the direction of revitalization , than the other direction.