Row of townhomes, and the rear wall was sinking.

Anyone able to provide a ballpark estimate for the cost of a rear balcony on a Chicago three flat?

I don’t go as far as to walk them to their car to look in it but I do look at the rear view mirror looking for a hanging tree.  

Short sales are not easy and can be a pain in the rear, but it is an option.If a home was bought at $200,000, the fair market value is now $150,000.Well if they paid all cash there is no problem if you can meet on a price that works.

So history will be a good guide, and history will tell you the long term returns on Bay Area RE are good.The principles of investing are still the same.

Right Path Real Estate (two Thursdays per month), Real Deal (@Charles Nguyen who is a BP member/poster), Jet Lending Big Event, and Fort Bend RE are all very good.

They usually only have had two roofs done (one had 3 layers on the rear and that posed a difficult demo) and a lot have some upgrades over the years that saved me some money.

I own the subdivision, so lot costs are low- $12,200 although I'm currently selling them at $23,900+price per sq ft is $53.10 w/o lotI would be close to my $50 sq ft without rear sod and fencing.

With inflation rearing its head, investors may be made whole on paper, but not neccisarilay in spending power over that time.Additionally, you will have your work cut out for you convincing burned investors (this one included) to get involved with another company that we know nothing about.In the end I would likely rather have 2K now and rely on myself to grow that into 5K to get back were I started.

@Karen M.If I understand your 20 acres, you have road frontage and you want to subdivide off the rear portion on the other side of the stream and access from somebody else's property on the other side of the stream.First of all most places I'm familiar with to do a subdivision requires municipal/county approval.