Cash is King.If you are handy, plan on building property equity with small projects when you can - update a bathroom or paining, landscaping...Only take on what you can handle, what absolutely needs doing, and things that add curb appeal.

sym=WFC&page=bash&period=q Smoke all the "hopium" you wish to, there is still a lot of pain to go thru.

There are certainly answers that would work, but they involve pain - something the weak and whiney American public is not willing to accept.

You just give a copy of the 20 page report to the tenant and check the box on the lead based pain disclosure that you are aware of lead based paint and have the tenant or buyer sign.

Doing a lease option might or might not help ease the pain of selling.5) If the numbers accurate, it looks like they actually could just do a straight sale with minimal pain.

I just went through this pain in the butt when I sold a house recently.

Hi, All,Just a quick post, in hopes that even one person might be warned away from what I experienced.I just went thru a lot of lost cash and pain dealing with a fraudulent Credit Repair Agency (per FTC).The reason I'm posting this is just to hopefully help someone else by warning them away from these companies.Let's just say i wish someone had warned me about just ONE of the 36 companies described in this pdf file from the Federal Trade Commission....http://www.ftc.gov/os/2008/10/081023sweeplist.pdfVernHere is an example I found posted on the web, described in this FTC document...I3SOLUTIONS.NET, GENE SCHWALEN: Cease & Desist issued to i3Solutions.net, Merle Eugene Schwalen III, by NC Attorney General.Item 1.

My opinion is simply that buying holding real estate is a long slow way to build wealth in real estate and very painful as you go...And learning to buy and sell.. creating a cash machine.. that you then reinvest is much faster...go pick up the book....10 Roads to Riches by Ken Fisher...

"What a pain", I kept thinking to myself.

mobiles are a pain in the rear in this area also. you cant lease them in most places, the park approval boards are very strict, the list goes on.