Where I live you can buy a duplex in the nicer part of town for around 100k, and a 5 apartment building just sold in the not-so-nice part of town for 22k. just depends on where you live I suppose.

If I remember Reed uncovered some facts about Whitney's youth where he ran afoul of the law and printed the court documents on his website.

Although these factors may not be an immediate part of the financial considerations they should be as shortcomings in due diligence can prove expensive and, of course, issues uncovered should be reflected in the purchase price of the property.

You need seasoned analysts and economists who have their finger on the pulse of the global real estate market to help uncover truly valuable investment opportunities. 3.

Just make sure that if you look at anything built before the Hurricane that you do your due diligence well, like any other place in need some contractors came in a did piss poor jobs on the homes an ran.I have a cop buddy down there too that bought a new home after the Hurricane I want to say he payed in the 120's range or so, nice little place i believe it was a 2/2 I would have to ask, it was in Gulfport.I did see a few weeks ago an REO property just north of the coast line in Gulfport that was a new subdivision development for sale, it has something like 70 plots laid out if I can remember correctly, the website pictures showed minimal readiness and I don't think utilities had been run yet, but I remember seeing the letters from utility companies and the State Dept of Agriculture about the land.

I have a team of economists and analysts uncover a market in the world that is currently quiet but will be hot in the near future.

You will need a small budget for advertising, and patience will be a virtue because these types of deals can take more effort to uncover and complete.

Your lender will most likely require a title search that will uncover any liens.

I have bought properties that needed roof and sometimes we would need to get on the roof to tell if there was one or two layers of shingles, but we always new how many layers before we started the job.You also said "they looked in the attic and didn't see any need for redecking" It would be blatantly clear from looking in the attic that there was more than one layer of shingles (look at the number of roofing nails sticking through the decking).As for uncovering bad roof decking during the tear off process, sometimes you just don't know until you tear off the shingles, other times its obvious from looking in the attic or walking on the roof.Sounds like this company has taken you for a ride.

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