However keeping them an additional week/month pretty much ate my lunch.

oh man, can I relate. like some others I hoped it would work out and they would come through. filing for eviction is your insurance policy whatever it costs. if they come through after your have filed then fine, you have options. until you file all you can do is hope they will come through. bad for you.I think of it as running a restaurant and they just ate their food, refused the check and order again. would you stand for that?

The high cost of insurance (hurricane) and tax rate 3% ate everything else.This never made sense to me because my parent did very well outside of the D.C area.

sorry about lack of info.They need to sell because the payments got out from.under them, from what I understand they are having money troubles and HAVE NOT paid the house off yet.but they need to sell this house so they can move into another house that is more affordable.they ate living with family at the moment until the house sells

The terms that you have presented ate extremely competitive for any real estate investor, let alone one on a first flip.

Ate they a good investment?

I am a full time student at KSU and I work full time at Ed Voyles Honda (sales) in Marietta, Ga.

I agree with the above poster who says real estate couses ate designed to help you pass the test.  

Good info to see a broad trend, and tread cautiously, but neighborhoods don't all follow the trend to a tee.

I would just try to within an hour.s drive within your home or office depending on where you ate leaving from.