Foolishly, I let "newbie" roadblocks blur my vision and I put real estate investing on the back burner for 20 years.Now that I'm in my forties, I'm ready to take investing seriously.

Chase probably has several of these houses (as in several hundred thousand) that they have put on the back burner, pending some other resolution.

No, you get in your car and drive two states over to stay with your fat aunt Fanny.

Don't know about the CO mitigation but that is likely the burner. 

Then, they will go with a low-fat diet for one week, then low carb for another week... lift heavy weights with low reps one week, then the next week it's off to High Intensity Interval Training, etc. 

@Wayne Brooks; lol, running just as fast as my little fat feet will carry me.

Crowd funding seems like in many cases the blind leading the blind.Amateur deal makers and amateur investors with small capital to invest salivating over promised fat returns that never materialize.What's better a REAL 10% or a FAKE  20%??  

When we go to the closing table with our buyer, there will be a big fat check issued in his name (somewhere in the ballpark of 50k).What I want to know is... wont the IRS look at me funny if I suddenly deposit 25k in one day and try to tax me on it as personal income?

The good side of this is that I'm sitting on a fat pile of cash that I haven't sent into my mutual funds because every day I think; "maybe one will turn up today".

I called my agent before 4 PM, and she called me back to say the other agent still has to get the papers together, she's not got this on the "front burner" because she doesn't expect to get paid, so she's putting other things first...My agent says there's nothing we can do.