Here's the deal, her mother and brother both are deceased her mother deeded the house to her son in case she died first but he died before her she was 91 yrs old.

We've had at least 20-30% increases in value in the last 3 yrs.,  add that to the fact that an obvious lack of attention to detail can cost as much as 20% off the market value.  

My old philly row homes are all over 100 yrs old

After living for 50 yrs I finally feel like I have a real estate investment company.  

And I had 2 yrs worth of industry knowledge.

Since this post I asked other grandparents(85+ yrs old) and every one of them has done a seller carry.

the first 14 we got with conventional loans at 30 yr  to keep the payments low. then we found banks that could do 10 for wife and 10 for me. but at 15 or so we found a bank that could combine all loans into 1 (at 4.95% and 20 yrs) and still cash flow well. in addition, they would give us a line of credit (4.5%, interest only), so we are essentially buying cash.it's been easier with them on board.

I lived in AZ for 5 yrs and look forward at my next opportunity to visit again.  

It's something my fiance and I thought we would never want to do in our primary residence, but we're realizing that doing something like that for a relatively short term (1-2 yrs) could really get us closer to our real estate goals.Hope that helps!

Also, because of my public service job, in 10 yrs ( I'm 3 years in) the balance of the loan will actually be forgiven.