Bringing your debt balance down to zero on any subject property implies a very short life of the asset.

If you want a way to make returns on your money from rentals, outside of your regular job which implies that you don't have a lot of time to put into real estate, I recommend buying turnkey rental properties.

At sheriff sale, there probably won't be a trustee - you will make the check for certified funds payable to the county sheriff usually.Are you implying that this house is listed on MLS now, and you want to buy before the sheriff sale?

Not exactly sure what A, B, C, and D would fully imply but I'll take a shot.

REI should imply that one has some actual capital invested in RE.

I  would go for 6.    10 reminds me of a diamond in the rough implying its not done yet. 

Contact real estate trainers and Duane gomer.

As long as the filters are cleaned or replaced regularly (usually cleaned as they are mostly the metal kind) there should not be a problem.What is the unwritten alternative you imply?

It turned out that ‘held’ was a bad choice of words on their part as (to me at least) it implies that we will get it paid at some later date.

Now, from reading the boards for the past few days, I realize that many of you probably are *tsk* *tsk*ing me about taking on such a complex project for my first investment purchase but I purchased the property along with several relatives who implied that they were experienced investors due to their longstanding ownership of single-family houses.