Hence the mud tunnels.

Those questions should be made to weed an undesirables out.

Yall ever gret stuck in the mud up there?

-Water Tank $250-$400 materials; depends on gas or electric a plumber will install for $75-$150-Drywall/paint drywall is $4 per sheet paint is $50-$120 per 5 gal mud and tape is cheap, you have to find affordable labor-Furnace can run up to $3000 installed-Pex plumbing $500 max including labor and material-Windows windows $200 per window installed (10 windows =$2k)On the high side it would cost me no more than $7000 to get this all done as long as it's not a drywall gut job.

Hi Jessica,Thanks for your post.Please check out a blog I wrote about negotiating.I think you will find it useful.http://www.biggerpockets.com/blogs/4977/blog_posts/36698-if-you-throw-enough-mud-on-a-brick-wall-eventually-some-will-stickJust keep submitting as many offers on as many properties as you possibly can.Thanks and have a great day.

Otherwise, you could end up in an undesirable living situation.Hope that helps, best of luck!

She also did not clean the carpets and now have mud and grime stains that now I must hire someone to remove.

The issue for BP readers and many is that with the free fall of Detroit proper RE prices it brought in the undesirable from the US marketing companies partnering with GB or AU marketing companies sending over pretty pictures of this cute Detroit bungalow for 75k that they just bought for 5k and put 10k into.... there was a lot of significant profiteering and then of course the management issue you speak of are legendary... having all these homes sold to foreigners and out of state folks that eventually give up.. .does not help either does not help the area and certainly does not help the investor.. then the locals who know what they are doing live it and breath it every day they swoop in and pick up the great deals...

Hello BP, I need advise as to how to go about this. I have a duplex close in an ok neighborhood. Unfortunately, the house next door went into foreclosure and is now filled with people who sit outside all day, drinking...

New mud room leading out to the back yard and a new garage.