The owner has listed it at a much higher price twice since then and has had no bites.Like Aaron above, my "standing offer" has the caveat of reevaluation at the time the choose to resume talks.

You can always go back to Indy and resume a lower paying job.2.

Crime is 1/3 the national average, property taxes are 49th in the country (making your ROI better than most states), median home cost is better than almost anywhere else, and median income is among the highest in the country because of all of the R&D jobs in science, technology, aerospace and defense industry.Huntsville is a primary nuclear target, so if you worry about that diversification is a great idea, but you can inspect every property, have oversight on construction and property management, and get off market deals more easily.  

My problem is that he wants a resume and i dont have much to put on one.

MY brief resume is as follows since college 1985: new home sales, licensed realtor then broker, new home sales manager and regional manager, company VP sales & marketing for home builder, owner of 3 LLC companies (home building, land developer, real estate brokerage), residential design, estimating, purchasing, construction of small commercial buildings, meetings with city officials bankers and engineers, mortgage banker, consultant to individuals starting own home building and real estate companies, investor in purchasing and rehabbing residential homes, property manager, project manager of rehabbing investors homes, wholesaling, land trust deals, HUD/VA reo properties, BPO's.

Depending on the market And the upside  you may be able to get 10% per turn and a good investor will turn houses every 90 days so at the end of the year your $25k investment could grow to $33,275 but in the process you may get to see 3 flips through to completion and add those to your resume while having your money secured by realestate.

Your resume will show them you are serious.

I have done fine since I resumed in 2012, but...sure would have been nice to quit 10 years ago! 

You put a similar ad asking for clean-hands administrative office work, and you'll get emailed fifteen nice-and-neat resumes with mission statements all stating, "I am a bright, highly motivated self-starter..."

Is there a way I can take over the payments, with resuming payments after the rehab,