Get the inspection report and check comparable properties quickly for condition and then go to the seller with your proposed reductions and be able to point out condition-comparable properties in keeping with your proposed price reduction.

We appealed 16 properties this year and have gotten 12 results so far with $116,454 reduction in values and 4 more pending the hearing.

I've even heard of GCs using auction type settings for returned items at Home Depot and Lowes for steep discounts.I've learned a lot about the GC game as I was up close to over 40 projects last two years and some went well and some did not and when they did not it was all Contractor related.If a GC isn't sourcing cheap materials at the same time milking the hell out of his 150-200 per day workers, then you can find yourself eating into your margins real fast. 

If you used FHA you have to live in the property for a year anyway, so use that time to save and buy another one in a year but maybe try a low down Conventional instead of FHA.

Then if at the end of whatever time you have agreed upon, if the tenant still has not left, you can get the Execution to move them out.There are programs out there that may assist the low income tenant with first last and security as well as some moving expenses at a new apartment.

You want to have a statement balance at zero or as low as you can get it. 

Factors you should be looking for are: Job growth, population growth, low unemployment rates, increasing demand for housing, housing price history, and rent cost history.

So for example, in the Orlando market, a 4bd house is pretty low as a standard but over here in the Tampa Bay Area a 4bd house is quite high on the STR ladder.  

Once I got over the idea of giving up my low rate, it made a ton of sense.In my opinion, letting the equity just sit there isn’t justified by holding onto a low rate.

The risk of problems is extremely low, even in larger markets.