When you buy a property value below 90k, this is far below the replacement value of most houses and implies that the house is not generally desirable (it might be too ancient or in a bad neighborhood).

Like a brat, I remember tossing a package of hot dogs in the flower bed outside my front door. lolThe fridge/freezer was ancient but they did correctly repair it. 

@Jordan Greek Welcome to BP!

I have some ancient furnaces at my first property.

I was born in Rochester, NY on 1978 from Greek  parents.

Used to do my own courthouse research, but that's now ancient history.I use direct mail and then field the callbacks I get from the interested parties (motivated note sellers).

The Greek housing market may be in the gutter, according to recent reports, but you wouldn't know it from the booming business that realtor Stelios Miliarakis has been seeing.

But when I look up listings of properties, what I see is complete Greek to me.

I had no choice but to go along or not sell our house, because EVERYBODY was doing it.The Greeks in Greece never thought the bottom would fall out of a rotten society.

As my ancestry is Greek, my favorite historical example is an ancient Athenian general and politician named Themistocles.