Call your building department and ask what code they use and which edition.Jon:  Out of curiosity, are you required to re-deck if you are (re)applying shakes or metal roofing?  

They got a little wonky and went off the rails and ended up having the police called on them by me (should have seen them shaking in their boots) and our insurance ended up settling with me for $10,000. 

Just act like it's killing you to pay 47K which he told you is his number and do the Quarles thing (with the "I'm not saying I could buy this at 47K but If I could"  and just shake your head and sigh a lot. . .)  

I'm not sure how long it will be before the city is back in the black, how services will be continued or how current issues will shake out.

There is a big buzz lately about the benefits and merits of "Co Wholesaling these days.Honestly,,,it sounds great and as a practical matter it seems like a great way for a Newbie or novice investor to get started.For that matter ,,Im sure even an experienced investor would love to split a wholesale fee with a wholesaler if they were in agreement and the partner brought in the exact buyer the wholesaler wanted in the first place.But I have some healthy skepticism about the whole concept01 Wouldnt you think a killer wholesaler even with only 1 or 2 years in the biz would have a healthy bonafide buyers list already,,those 4 0r 5 people that have already bought from him and tell him "bring me the next deal you get across your desk,,it doesnt even need to be a great deal"02 We are all busy,,,lets be honest and all the succesful wholesalers I know,,,as nice as they are as people,they really dont have time to mess around and train or hold hands with a well intended "buyer finder" there is still a learning curve03 From what I see it takes a lot of time and MONEY spent on marketing to shake out a deal from the trees these days.Ive heard stories of some individuals spending 5 to10K on marketing a month.

In fact, it reduces you your influence.He was chasing people down to shake their hands.

I have to be honest and say that I have been shaking like a twig and have been nervous about getting started.  

Is it the new hardwood floors, the cedar shake roof, how about how real marble counter tops, or the pool and gazebo?

Any errors in grammer or punctuation are intential..SBA can take the subject property, the inventory, your residence, your aunt, your children, it's a federal debt, they can put liens on your shirt, can't even shake them lose in bankruptcy.

So when one of these so called investors that were going to solve the sellers problems showed up I would revise the terms of the offer so the seller and I would get a fair shake which promptly sent them into the agents just don't understand about lease options and what I am doing mode,  they just want to screw things up, and they don't know anything and they should just get out of the way.