I also wasn't sure on whether or not this would wreck your credit.3) This is admittedly a TERRIBLE idea.

So they all are going to get a piece of this deal and she said anything below $70,000 is not a good deal for her (but the house is a wreck) What are some alternative options that we can do to get this deal done?

Parts of the floors were sunk in, I think the guy took a mobile home and cut one side off and butted it up to his SF becuase you could open a window that was flush against a brick wall, and the house that was once really nice had been wrecked by negligent family and the effects of sitting there.

I buy the houses that are really wrecked.

The logic of not replacing a worn out rook is like having brakes squealing and grinding on your car and not fixing them because they haven't failed yet and caused you to have a wreck.

It needed major remodeling, the roof was collapsed over the family room, the plumbing was a wreck, horribly outdated, but it was in the most desired neighborhood on my list.

@Aditya Namjoshi "check yourself before you wreck yourself"The only good thing I see there is that your total purchase price means you won't lose "too much" money when it all goes to ****. 

Went well, but the broker told me the house is a wreck.

One car wreck or other accident could bankrupt you.

In my case, I focused on Dave's advice regarding insurance and estate planning-- in part because I've lost far too many friends to cancer, war, and car wrecks who left people behind who loved and depended on them behind.