The association included $50,000 annually for attorney fees and used that much or more every year primarily suing fellow owners for stupid things.In all of my familiy's history, after all the real estate developments, tranactions and tax planning, we have never collectively come close to spending $50,000 spanning more than 90 years.

Bill , you are right the OP was looking for a doubling of his money in a some what shorter time span.

It grew from a tiny CMS into a very popular CMS in the span of six months, I'd guess.

I have been quite fortunate to have that sum double twice within a span of four years, so stocks have worked out for me thus far.

But about five months total over that time span.

Some of the core markets now are trading at crazy prices and really low caps.I have also seen where a house used to be worth 160k and at it's lowest point the value with foreclosures was worth 75k.Because pre-foreclosure and REO inventory has dropped that same house is trading at 92k within a span of 6 months.I have seen new home subdivisions start popping up as builders feel more confident taking a risk to jump back into the market to sell houses.I wouldn't really call it appreciation as much as a market correction and recapture as the bad assets are worked through they system.

Like everything else in this 30 second attention span society, the media foreclosure fad will swirl down the memory hole.Good Luck,Jason

I was trying not to go into details how I got screwed over by a contractor, and loan officer, and realtor...all in the span of 6 months.What I got from the cash out refi, was about 1/4 of the estimated fix up costs, and then my contractor bailed, after paying him some upfront.

I've looked at numerous properties, including two last weekend with tenants in them.If you want specifics for the local situation, google for landlord/tenant laws, or tenant advocates, or similar terms, along with the town or state.But, I seriously doubt you can prevent showings or other access to the property.Note that you're not under any obligatation to clean the place spic-and-span like an owner who's trying to sell their house would.

Everything on a house has a life span and repairs have to be done constantly.In my state, if I have to issue 3 pay or quits in a one year period, I can evict for chronic late payment.