If they did what they were supposed to do, the properties you could rent to them wouldn't be anywhere near as cheap as they are.

The 401k loand might feel like "cheap" money, but that 10.5% interest rate means it's more like a short-term hard money loan.

Does it make sense to cheap out over the few thousand dollars it will cost to go through a proper escrow and title process?

Book a flight from Portland to Orlando rent a hotel and car and go to the planning department and building department in person and get to the folks that were running the permit and discuss paths to completion..

Your 3% rate likely helps you with cheap debt and without the need to chase high that normal rental rates.

That is a cheap pet fee and good cancellation. 

Giving away the place cheap only creates more work for yourself screening lower income individuals, and attracts scammers.

We have a tons of lots around here like the one you described, many of which can be bought for cheap and are not listed because there are just barely any buyers for such.

ETWhen Tylisha Slaughter learned that the West Philadelphia rowhouse she rented was going to be auctioned off in a sheriff’s sale, she sensed opportunity.Slaughter, now 30, aimed to buy the home near Cobbs Creek Park on the cheap and restore it from the “slumlord”-like conditions she, her boyfriend, and her two young children had been living in.But on the day of the sale, she said, she found herself up against an out-of-towner with lots of money to spend: Brandon “Dutch” Mendenhall.

The lot I am looking at is near a Dam and the power in my area is super cheap.