The house sooe in under week, which all houses I this area have ben doing for months.

@Matt Dickens Brian is right.I see a lot of this as a respect issue, if he doesn't have respect for himself and his time to organize it so that he can provide quality service for his customers, how can he respect his customer's time and jobs?

Ben Bauer in Cincinnati.  

Thank you Lance and Ben, I will be at the next meeting definitely.

@Ben Kirchner I feel your pain with home warranty companies!

Ben Franklins in non sequential order . 

Ben

Hi BP,I have a friend of mine bought a land through tax foreclosure auction...he bought it without doing any due diligence ahead of time, anyways he found out its a very small lot and worth nothing if he is trying to sell.The appraisal value is $12k and he paid a bit less but no body would buy such lot on the market...somebody told him to donate the land to the city or the county or some sort of organization that helps people and file it on his tax return as deduction. my questions are: 1- Any suggestions who to target to donate the land 2- If he donated the land can he file it as a loss or deduct it from his tax refund at the end of the year...he is entitled to pay some capital gain taxes on other properties he sold so this deduction will definitely help.3- If point 2 is doable will he be able to file based on the appraisal value $12k?

Ben, an excellent post by @Jay Shapiro . 

Here's an excellent explanation of how they work:https://eig.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Tax-Ben...As well as a map with all of the qualified zones in CA:http://dof.ca.gov/Forecasting/Demographics/opportu...