Opportunities popping up, watch for the freight train it comes in fast.Keep your credit good, cash in checking and stay on the w-2 job.If you had a forbearance and owe -sell the property or bring the lump sum current to be ready to buy with a loan.When they stop using Debit cards and are paying with antique coins (wheat heads, mercury dimes, etc...) you know the population of an area is (out of money).And then it really can be Pick of the Litter--if you have some denaro.

Mercury, Liberty Mutual, etc. will insure knob & tube as long as it is in good condition.

They saved me a fortune when I replace the old mercury switch dials!

I'm getting a "free" 2007 Mercury Milan soon from an estate (just have to do the leg work to get paperwork for the car) and I couldn't be more excited! 

Bag of mercury dimes.

It’s totally raw land - power and water are only 300 feet away at the main road.The property has deeded access to the county irrigation water (NID), and there’s an abundance of beautiful manzanita, black oaks, cedar, and ponderosa pine.After $3k of 2 failed perc & mantle tests, $1200 of soil testing for lead/mercury/arsenic/asbestos, and endless hours at the building department, we decided that although this place ticks most of our boxes, we A) just can’t reconcile with the excessive mining history in the county*, and B) can't continue perc & mantle testing at $1500/test to find out whether it will cost ~$10k for a standard septic or more like ~$30k for an engineered system.

I’ve seen 6 months suggested several times now but Phoenix is soooo mercurial that even that scares me.