Instead, we are now getting moved to another State and have the property to sell in order to try and do anything reasonable at the new location.The area here is very depressed, lots of homes on the market and our place is higher than most and of course we have a high mortgages balance/payment.We recently had a couple come through that might be interested if we can swing a deal for them where they purchase a portion of the property (5 acres), with the house/pond on it for say $210,000; and we could do a land contract on the balance of the land, a little over 11 acres with little down and monthly payments.Their overall goal is to put as little down as possible, using his VA benefit, and I'm not sure they have more to invest anyway.The problem is I'll still end up with a lot of unpaid mortgage to carry with no real way to pay it off; although I guess I could re-fi the overall mortgage which of course will be 50 to 70K for a smaller payment as opposed to having payments based on 260K from the original mortgage.We leave here in 2 weeks and are getting a little nervous about all of this.

I guess cash is pretty safe and not that harmful as rates are so low on CD's.My son is re-fiing his condo at 5.25.

Difficult for me to tell right now since I'm on a notoriously slow hotel wi-fi.

I had no real background in construction (I was a business and comp. sci major with a concentration in econ.) and didn't really know which end of the hammer was useful.

So now Uncle Sam is your landlord as pointed out above, and let's not forget HARP coming soon, re-fi all your GSE or Non-GSE mortgages at todays rates into a GSE loan.Maybe Obama is actually brilliant ( I think its a sovialist ploy not brilliance but stick with me).

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Let the properties season and re-fi into a traditional loan at which point repairs will have been made4.

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Times article:http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-house-thieves-20140124,0,309265.story?