Thus, leaving $60,000 available for the note holder to claim.I did not sell the note to Ben (who offered me $30k for it which again another red flag).

Are there red flags I should be looking out for?

We used to leave a bottle of Proseco and sometimes a bottle of French red wine. 

I do like the idea of house-hacking, but I'm pretty rooted in LA at the moment.

I went to the property and some other red flags came up.

- How do you assess the market and identify red flags?

.: Olympia WA just passed an assistance program for certain minorities if they can show they have roots in this state prior to 1968.

No one is missing opportunity with the land bank properties, it is just surrounded with red tape and corruption.

Red flag.

Sellers did not allow us to get professionals in to give estimates for a french drain before closing (yes, our red flag we should have walked away with), but agreed to lower closing price.