Don't go there, you get paid after it closes and not before, counting your chickens before they hatch will get you in trouble.Real estate is unique, it's not a widget you can accurately time from raw goods through processing to sales off the shelf.

Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

The worst thing is that I chickened out and lost my $500.

I know for a fact when i first joined biggerpockets I was like a chicken with it's head cut off and had no direction.

I think that virtually every comp is now irrelevant because the mortgage rate environment is so different.Maybe I am chicken little who thinks the sky is falling but if we don't reevaluate the deals we have made offers on already, we may end up with approvals we can't resell.I think prices in general have to adjust down big time in one click just like mortgages adjusted up in one click.Yes, maybe the loss mits will not agree with our new valuations just yet but such is the nature of SS.The great deals always come at the END of a crises.

I've got a Dalmatian rescue (rescued from a good ole boy who confined her to a chicken coop) She's 5 and I can't imagine life without that Dal kiss and cuddle.

I don't suggest anyone play "chicken" with the IRS.Most investors I know that have bought with an IRS lien against it, have gone ahead with the rehab and sold after the 120 days had passed (hoping they wouldn't sieze it).FYI...

The amount of physical labor would limited...im no spring chicken anymore but can direct the contractor what needs to be done.

I felt like Joseph Kennedy getting stock tips from a shoe shiner.Not to go chicken little on this, but I have a prediction of something bad that is going to happen with this.

All trim in my flips gets Sherwin Williams "Creamy" in semi-gloss.