The paint lady at HD said you have to strip it, sand it down to bare wood, then restain from the ground up.

Twice 2 different ladies called even after I told the 2nd one that one of them was coming on 7/11, she insisted her visit was different.

No real rule of thumb to say a discount will be X%, depends on many factors.I agree with Wayne that you'd be better off with private money, problem is they are usually short term, but there are some little old ladies that would love to get 8/9% for 10 years for the grandkids, but that has other issues too.Now, if you're buying a 100K property for 70K you might do a 90K loan and you may get the 70K, the trick is not to go over the market value of the property and show that you have skin in the game or compensate for the skin like a pledge of other assets.

Here's my plan:- email all the agents and tell them my criteria, might get lucky here- scour craigslist and mls and make offers until my fingers bleed- don't know any reliable wholesalers but I want to add this to my deal sourcingAny other ideas?

I would defiantly go with laminate, I purchased some for my home from a lady on Craigslist, and it looks really good.

You know the lady that sued McDonald's because she spilled the hot coffee on her lap...the other day I almost spilled coffee on my lap and I think it would have burned my had that happened, you think I should sue?

I think that lady Sharon said she gets most of her deals on the 4th or 5th mailing or something.

Keep the fingers crossed!

Marie PoeThanks ladies, Dawn A. and @I was told by my mortgage banker that the funds only need to be in the bank for 2 months.

It seems some lady feel for the fake Zillow ad and gave up her personal info to them.