Beautiful home - congrats!

If you are just a warm body with 80k and no applicable skillset, I wouldn't bother.

Listed at $209,000 was able to negotiate down to $176,000.Plan to total gut and give this old beauty a 2025 face lift!!

It's a beautiful custom home, one of the biggest and easily one of the nicest homes in a so-so neighborhood of Oakland, CA (i.e.

We did a 100% gut/rehab on a 1950's house in 2018 and converted it to a duplex, turned out beautiful, salvaged the original wood floors in parts of the house, put good LVP in the rest, simple plastic mini blinds on every window.

You can PM me or send me an email which you can find on my profile because BP won't let me post it here in the body of a message.  

They cannot arbitrarily make wild gambles because they feel like it - they have to operate within established risk parameters that are approved by several regulatory bodies and internal controls.

Not to get too into the weeds, when you are face to face with someone, you can watch for mannerisms and non-verbal body language. 

Log cabins take a lot of maintenance ( mainly oiling them if your in an area with high temps) I owned one at one time it was beautiful and the wood interior was very inviting.  

@Mike LambertNever listen to "experts" that tells you you are too late for the party, I invested in the beautiful Tulum area and it has been the best investment ever!