In general you should not take advantage of anyone, not to mention "old ladies" who are likely someone's nice mother or grandmother somewhere.

@Mike L. you may want to also put a twist on the duplex strategy and look for houses with a "mother in law suite" or guest house.

One of the trends that I am seeing on the Southside (my stomping grounds) is, you have single mothers going out of state to get section 8, then transferring it after a year to move back to Chicago (smart move in my opinion).While sect. 8 is the way for the Southside, you also have the Eastside Condo Craze, as I like to call it.

@Barry ArmstrongHi Barry, I want to do the same thing with my mothers non profit providing affordable housing and having her organization keep the profits.

My mother (granddaughter of the deceased) is interested in purchasing the house at the auction knowing that she will likely be able secure the home for well under market value and may have a wonderful first flip opportunity with the purchase.

Currently moving into my father and mother-in laws until we find a place to purchase.

Our local frozen custard shop just opened on Mothers' Day.

I am looking to purchase a 4 family and the seller is offering me to buy before listing on the market as we have been in touch in the past (My mother use to rent there and I love the property).

That place was a $800k house and I hired a friend's mother who's a big time gardener/landscaper but not in the biz, she just does it for herself but really knows what she's doing and she picked out a bunch of really cool shrubs or little trees or whatever they're really called and we added those to update the existing landscaping, which had been very nice at one point but had been totally neglected for several years at least.

Hello guys,I'm posting this for a friend of mine mother who's 70.