If your ceilings are high enough and you make it clean and dry, you are already ahead.

I observed that when money temporarily dried up at the beginning of the epidemic, and it was unclear where real estate was going, those lenders who also flipped or developed were not inclined to help their borrowers out with loan mods or forbearances.

Houston is dry all over map whether it's Sugar land, Katy, Cypress, Spring or Houston.

Visually it looks dry though and not wet at all.

Record "dry powder"This is the reason that ultimately forced me to stop "waiting for the bubble to burst" back in 2019.

If you don't take it back, this could turn into a giant mess for you as the asset sits vacant and rots away.NARPM.org is a good place to find good property managers.

Now I haven't done a residential purchase in over 3 years because all the deals dried up and the market seems to be getting frothy with out of state investors moving in again.

A client did a termite inspection and it shows "no active termites found and tubes were dry".  

On the note of topics and code, depending on when the house was built if you replace the dry wall you lose grandfather status and will be required to update both the plumbing and electrical to modern standards.

in TX like west coast trustee sales are cut and dry. you pay on the spot and usually get your trustee's deed in a few weeks.. in judicial states the auction is just the first steps then you have to have a judge confirm..