Knowing who buyers are and what they are paying will help you identify the types of deals you can do with your given resources and enable you to form a strategy to stair step up to whatever level you want to be at.

Down stairs, one room is reserved for a ministry graduate of another house who lives there rent free and acts as over seer, and the other room is rented which covers a good deal of the mortgage.

Sam,Using Timbercret vinyl siding here,,its .046 thick,,,wish I could find some .050 (mill)thick.But the alberts site says done same way for hardi plank or other cement board productsSo many brand new houses are improperly flashed there windows and walls will fail in 10-15 years(and thats not very long).

Furthermore, if she waits to the setout date to move, I WILL carry her stuff out to the curb, but I can't guarantee that I won't drop a lot of it down the stairs (I'm not a professional mover - ya know.)Mike

That's where you can buy really good deal if you know where to look for and you can have an initial visual inspection (Unlike the ones sold on the stairs of the court house).Research the area or areas where you consider investing in.

I've already encountered homes where the foreclosed soon-to-be-former owner plugs the pipes with cement and lets the water run as they leave.

Courthouse stairs (Auctions) 3.

Don't take this the wrong way Allison but whenever I see your last name my thoughts go immediately to "Superbad"...and I think you just cemented that in my mind...lol

But then people will realize that Gold just stores wealth and doesn't create wealth and they will go looking for assets that produce returns like real estate and gold will loose 30% in the matter of weeks (Gold takes the stairs up and the elevator down).

The exterior is permastone/stucco and cement board siding, while the interior is plaster and drywall.