Hi all, I may be embarking on a big rehab project for a single family home in east Austin and would love to connect with someone who has experience with rehab projects/has any advice they can share with me before I get started.

I grew up on the east side of the town with a well versed knowledge of the neighborhood.

I’m not aware of any state that allows what would be a junior lien and would be extinguished in the foreclosure sale to game the system and record the lien in the gap between notice of the sale and the actual sale.There are ways to legally address such “liens” when they do arise in the middle of a foreclosure… such as redemption or surplus or even a QT action. 

He rented out the entire house by the room and slept in his camper van in the side yard even in the middle of winter.

I put 600k (2.6m) down on 50 units in East OR.

Unless we note otherwise in the listing information or disclosures, we fix everything that is broken or not functioning properly, but we have had several recent requests that are expensive and I'm interested in your experience in handling things like:- this roof is old and we're worried that we may have to replace it (was inspected by roofer and determined to be functioning properly)- there are screens missing from some of the windows and we would like you to add them- we're concerned about the drainage and would like you to add gutters- the AC unit is old (age disclosed in disclosure docs, was tested by HVAC guy and running fine) So do you budget for this type of concession, do you "meet in the middle" or do something else?  

Contractor in the Middle East, investing in Fort Worth, Wichita Falls, and Denton TX.

@Andy Binford  You can do that easily on far east side of Indianapolis.

If it closes UP today in California time, rates might be UP tomorrow (45-60% of the time), and you've got an hour or two from when Wall St closes to lock your rate if doing business with a Best Coast mortgage lender whose lock desk isn't going to close for a few hours (assuming the LO takes your call at 5:15 pm...) from when Wall Street closes on the East Coast.

Millions upon millions of jobs lost "forever" ("exported" to the "third world"), more millions lost half or more of their retirement accounts, creditors slashed and burned consumer credit to the point where, by the banksters' own numbers, some 74% of Americans wound up with "bad" credit (it was only 47% before they did that), ...Now, add in the knee-jerk responses in the lending industry and you've got a situation where only the elite of formerly middle-class wage earners can even hope to qualify for new home loans.In fact, the given the current housing shortage (yet more fallout from the crash), it is ONLY the dearth of lending which is keeping home prices from launching into interstellar space by suppressing demand.