It would probably take a crew of 3 guys about a week and 10 dumpsters to clean out.There was an open space in the dining room where the table was.

Basically, you want someone to go through the house and nitpick for every single small thing that will need to be done and have them estimate the low and high values for repairs.Then you go to the negotiation table.

As a renter now, you are paying someone elses mortgage - why not turn the tables?

My education cost me a lot in money spent on programs and seminars that only taught enough to get in trouble as well as in deals and money left on the table.

The last check should be the one that they use to put food on the table so they don't want to see it get smaller every day that the work isn't done.GET IT ALL IN WRITING.One last thought, also get a contractor lein release waver signed when they are done or when you fire them so that they don't attach a lein to your property.

Then 1 year later the market drops, you try to sell your home and find out you have to BRING cash to the table!

I googled a bit and found an interesting article (OPINION) outlining some reasons why "Kenny Boy" might actually turn the tables on Bush instead:http://dir.salon.com/story/opinion/feature/2004/07/08/kenneth_lay/index.htmlBut do I think that will happen?

I had a friend who had mentioned over the dinner table about splitting up your mortgage payments into two payments so you pay twice a month.

I'm not an expert at options on homes by any means,but I hate to see your question just sitting here unanswered.By "double closing" you mean that you exercise the optionand buy the house, but at the close you bring *your* buyerto the table and they actually buy.The easier route, it would seem to me, would be to sell theoption outright to the new buyer.

Funds can be kept in trust and only used at the closing table for each transaction.