The ceilings walls & oak floors were all ruined.

If we have nice oak trim throughout the entire house in good condition I may leave that.

Home is a 50's ranch with red oak hardwoods everywhere but kitchen/dining/bath.

., don't show up at the next treasuries sale, we'd basically have our bluff called and instantly be bankrupt, imo.

I live and invest in the near southwest suburbs of Chicago (Berwyn, Oak Park, Brookfield). 

I bury mine under the second oak on the left and nail a board to the tree that reads: "Note to self...

Let's call their Bluff and stop all the bailouts.

Fair Oaks?

everyone here should be a member of a reiaAngel Oak lima one find local loan brokers that usually broker all sorts of lenders, HML to portfolio (non dti based 30 yr)...

As others have mentioned, minutes from Baylor you can be in a very wide range of home prices.Near Baylor, its going to be very tough to find something that cash flows, there are some very high prices being paid for properties by developers, and a lot of multi family apartments have been rehabbed down Gaston/Live Oak/Ross etc.We have looked at a lot of properties in that area, heck walked thru a house just to the east near the Santa Fee trail that was about 200K that had no electric, and whose pier and beam foundation was sitting on the ground.