Gee Marc, what I'm hearing is let the poor go defend the country and let us who are attempting to profit from any opportunity left in the country stay here and reap the benefits at the cost of others.Let the poor work at the desk in the Homeland Security Office answering the phone, cutting the cost of adminstration for the government, while others try to make a contribution by making money and paying taxes.Guess you're lucky you were not born in Greece in ancient times, where every boy was groomed to be a warrior and those who were not fit simply killed.

I found one ugly house and I thought it was vacant but when I asked a neighbour she said that there is an old couple who live there and they had it like this for a long time.

Hi All,I am planning to buy a home in Bayonne,NJ.It has a drive way on right hand side that looks shared, it's neigbouring(R.H.S) property also has a narrow driveway on RHS.also both properties has backyard together with no physical boundries, also garages in the backyard, I came to know that earlier there was only one owner for both propertiesRealtor told me that drive way is not shared, but current owner has allowed neighbour to use driveway for his easyness, and neighbour uses that driveway to put stuff in his garage that he uses as store.Just wondering how I can find out if driveway is shared or not, or "easyness" is neighbours right or not.For privacy reasons, if I buy that home I would like to partition it and put a gate on driveway enterance.

This may have to do with the economic and political influence of many of the other neighbours in Mount Pleasant or the fact that it is not in the historic uptown area (the location of the house is in what use to be a separate community called Portland) - which is also why it was spared in the great fire of 1877.One is free to renovated this house as you see fit - which is why my agent brought it to me.Our stock is typically an older, unloved building, either purposely built as multi-units or previously converted - but occasionally we will convert or re-arrange the division of a previous conversion.  

I grew up in Greece, a Rochester suburb. 

I hope to find other investors in my local and neighbouring areas Birmingham etc that I can network with as well as learn fast and have my input in the BP site.  

Because I grew up next door (and estate agents aren't always discrete) we discovered that the access land owner is likely a near neighbour who may have bought the land specifically in order to eventually get a good deal on this property by scaring off other potential buyers and pushing the price down.

You are partially liable for the neighbours child being bitten. 

They know I am unable to sue them as they are in Greece and I am in the USA and it would be incredibly expensive to take legal action against them.

Look for signs of erosion and talk to neighbours who have been there for a while (10+ years) to see if there have been any problems with flooding or erosion.