I think I would be sure to take someone along as there is some safety in numbers.. especially if you come with an extra person unexpectedly.

i dont want any unexpected paper work or LAWS to pop up and affect my deal due to lack of guidence..

I will get my $35,000 back so it will essentially be $0 down, I will have the house, still have some equity, and have extra cash in hand for any unexpected vacancy or to use as another down payment later on.

I assume a 10% fudge factor, usually plenty for unseen and the unexpected, while a few times that wasn't enough, more often it's within 2% of the initial guesstimate.

This happened unexpectedly because I had no idea I was going to move.I left the house by Dec 16. but now the landlord wants me to pay rent until January 13th because that is when the 30 day notice ends (Dec. 13-Jan 13).

Every single component of buying a turnkey can be checked on with some easy due diligence.

Insurance is for the unexpected.

Get J.Scotts book on rehab costs, time lines, and order of doing projects.The order is cruial on some of the key components.

Hotels have two components...a real estate component and a business component.

Sometimes the failure has nothing to do with any components within the heating system itself; I had a failure caused by an empty plastic grocery bag getting sucked into the opening on the air intake on a furnace on a windy day - no air for combustion causes unit to not fire up.