Imagine you have crushing stress from a problem property, any kind of letter addressing your issue at that time might be welcome, and you would call.  

I would imagine that ANY city would prefer to have a house like that demolished to polish up the area. 

I'll take a look.Unless you're working with someone much more experienced than yourself, who you trust with your life, I couldn't imagine buying out of state without flying out to see it. - Jordan

I can only imagine, but figured I'd start by joining Bigger Pockets. 

While not the same brand, generally when people refer to vinyl flooring, they are imagining the squares, which are similar in color and shape as linoleum.

hello everyone,I've recently made two offers on short sales, (they both happened today)as they looked like good deals when i quickly ran the numbers, so i made offers on both as things are going crazy fast here in vegas and i thought it was best to submit an offer then have the option of turning down the deal if it wasn't a good one.after using the rental calculator one cash flows for 90 and the other for 60. and this is without me allowing for cap x on either, the reason for this is that ones a town home and the other is a condo, both with good hoa's, i did allow 5% for repairs which i think is a lot as the condo has just been totally refurbished and the TH was in good condition and I've allowed 1500 for touch ups, so it'll also be like new after I'm finished. my thinking was that this 5% would cover both repairs and cap x as there shouldn't be much in the way of either. is this a terrible idea for me to allow so little for both.i would be waking in with 25k of equity on the TH and thats without my 20% down payment. and with the condo id be getting around 13k.here are the rental calculator results for both-any help would be greatly appreciated!

I don't know about that market, but any house that sells for $16k I would imagine needs a good amount of $$ put into it.

I can't even imagine how many levels of complexity real estate investing has, which is where the intimidating part comes in. 

Otherwise you have to compensate her with relocation money....Santa Monica has a chart on their rent control website, and I'd imagine LA does too.

PRe Foreclosures..I imagine that's where the owner can sell the property before they lose it or are you going through the bank to purchase it in pre foreclosure?