Since the house sounds like it is in rough shape, maybe they can bring it to the villages attention for not being up to code?

For those that do not know we are located in Raleigh,NC, the #1 housing market in the US, fact not fiction.

We run a small investment management firm (it’s just the two of us – he’s the investor, I take care of the books), and we owned a two family house from October 2001 until October 2012, in the Elmwood Village area.

The upstairs has 3 rooms that I can rent out during the summers as the village it is situated in is on the famous "Coast to Coast" walk.

But I am working on transactions from Sauk Village to Crystal Lake.

I actually live in the Village of Waunakee, which is really a 'burb of Madison, Wisconsin.

You need to clarify that with the assesor in the township/city/village it is in.Last year we bought a property that had a homestead on it and after talking with the assesor I waited to close until January 2 to keep the homestead for the rest of the 2012 tax year.

Collins, Aurora, Wheat Ridge, Lakewood, Castle Rock, Greenwood Village, I25, Arvada, Stapleton, Commerce City, Northglenn, Westminster, Brighton, DIA, Broomfield, Hendeson, Golden, Highlands Ranch, Parker, Boulder, Evergreen, Castle Pines, Roxborough, Chatfield, Thornton, Greeley, Ken Caryl

I pulled out of 38118 as I see gangs have taken that Parkway Village area over.

I'd recommend "The Millionaire Next Door" and "The Millionaire Mind" instead of the Kiyosaki fiction.