Purchase price: $45,000 Cash invested: $37,500 Sale price: $115,000 Outside Work - Remove chimney, repair roof, add roof over entry way, all new siding, new gutters, soffit and fascia painting, porch staining, stucco foundation, sloped the yard for water control, overgrown vegetation removal, and new landscaping.

We immediately got our landscape contractor to work clearing this jungle of trees and vegetation.

One classic had a $180k Fed Tax Lien on it that went for around $25k & another with an EPA designated lead soil issue (complete with a do not plant vegetables in the backyard warning) & that went for around $4500.

Look for any vegetation that allows crawling onto the building.Now it is time for trapping. 

Make sure there's some good vegetables, egg and pork in my fried rice, please. 

The old man lost his mind and is permanently confined to the looney bin right now, waiting out the rest of his days doped to the gills in a near-vegetative state.All's well that ends well.

For some reason, it has decided that it wants to get into my backyard in spite of the fact that there is only grass, and not, say a vegetable garden... 

I know I'm probably going to get blasted that the opp sux but trying to understand why vegetables grown close to big markets are so costly when there are cheaper plots of land you're not allowed to build on. 

There may be tree vegetation restrictions that tell you what you can and cannot cut down.Building costs vary but in Charleston your starting costs with a contractor is $150 SF.

Below are some generalizations about ongoing maintenance costs: Older properties require more maintenance than newer properties.Composition roofs require more maintenance than tile roofs.Properties in climates with hard freezes require more maintenance than properties in milder climates.Properties in locations with a lot of moisture require more maintenance than properties in dryer climates.Wood siding requires more maintenance than aluminum or stucco siding.Properties with lush vegetation require more maintenance than properties with little or no vegetation.Below is a typical Las Vegas single family class A home.In summary, I believe Las Vegas is not only a good place to invest today, it has a high probability of continuing to be a good investment location into the foreseeable future.