Very nice!! 

But otherwise we have had good luck with them.The nice thing about the re-key Kwiksets is you can easily change out the key AND you dont have to worry about stripping the wood by putting in a and changing out a lock.Plus it takes like 2 seconds to re-key the locks.

Appliances look nice until the pet hair destroys the fan on your nice stainless steel fridge and you are out another $1k+ to replace it... 

Nice looking units! 

Hi, pre foreclosure in all of its permutations, before the bank sends Notice of Default (NOD) or efter which is state even county dependant but often starts a 4 week clock till the trustee auction are the 2nd most difficult deal scenario and IMHO only experienced investors should bother, the 1st most difficult deal scenario are bidding at the court house steps on lord only knows what is being auctioned off sometimes even 2nd mortgages, you need to do so much home work to attempt to reduce your risk at the court house steps...Pre foreclosure no one talks about these issues, always about the nice sounding stuff like "motivated seller" get a good deal etc etc both are usually not the case.- 95% of folks in pre or post NOD want to stay in their house, keep their house inspite of them 100% will loose the house at the auction. 

Once you know the market, it's a nice gig. 

I actually had come across your post below in the Events forum and thought to myself it would have been nice to attend that to see first hand a local flip and talk shop about the process.https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/521/topics/1215682-chec...I am happy to hear that someone with your experience in the region feels that Westchester is a market with some potential.

my hope is to get a nice unit for my son at below 50% of retail.  

Nice to meet you.   

But 5 years is plenty of time for these Detroit investments to be working nicely.