IndyMac Bank's assets were seized by federal regulators on Friday after the mortgage lender succumbed to the pressures of tighter credit, tumbling home prices and rising foreclosures.The bank is the largest regulated thrift to fail and the second largest financial institution to close in U.S. history, regulators said.Yahoo FinanceIn the biggest bank failure of the housing downturn to date, federal banking regulators today closed IndyMac Bank FSB, naming the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. as conservator.The FDIC said it will transfer insured deposits and "substantially all the assets" of IndyMac Bank, to a newly created successor, IndyMac Federal Bank, which will be operated by the FDIC.Insured depositors and borrowers will automatically become customers of IndyMac Federal, FSB and will continue to have uninterrupted customer service and access to their funds by ATM, debit cards and writing checks.

I currently live in Ireland, but am considering a relocation to (hopefully) warmer and drier Texas over the coming months.

The property has a washer and drier hook-ups in a little laundry room, but I do not know where to purchase a coin operated washer/drier and or what is the going rate for this type of machine.

I have a finished walkout and its drier down there than it is upstairs.

I just supply the w/d hookup because other landlords have told me about tenant abuse.However, I had one tenant buy a bad used washer which flooded the basement, which wasted my Sunday afternoon, but I made him pay for pumping it out.In my latest rehab I'm including a washer/drier because it came with the house.

New lease deals have tumbled so far this year."

Denver is expensive, but much drier :) Both are very expensive, unless you end up somewhere a few hours outside the big city. 

I have seen the value of my house tumble all the way to $275,000 when the last bubble burst and it is now valued at $520,000.Swanny

Makes sense that it's going to tumble down a bit.  

I have a couple 4 units and for both of them I decided to have a company come in and handle the washer and drier.