They'll find excuses for why they're not paying more in rent -- it's because their house is substandard compared to others, it's because the landlord's not doing necessary maintenance, it's because, because, because...it's never "I lucked out but sooner or later imma lose my ticket on this gravy train."

My personal recommendation would be, if considering staging, to stage the house completely using the big ticket items, so as to provide a vision, as it seems like a lot of first time buyers really need that.Good luck!

It's like someone asking you to go to the Patriots game with them and then asking for money for the ticket after the game. 

Also, as far as rents, when you figure in the trade off of buying, insuring and maintaining a car to the $75 month T ticket it makes the area rent seem more reasonable.  

I'll make a ticket for our team.

@Larry Caper thanks, I love Denver and have season tickets to the Broncos and will be at the game this year against the Steelers.

It is just that a personal guarantee is used to get around the limited liability.A newly formed business or new investor is not likely to avoid a personal guarantee especially on big ticket items.

In jscott's case, the pipe had frozen over the winter and that's why it burst. i normally want electricity to see things clearly and to inspect basement, attic, etc. if i were you, i'd be more concerned with the cost of windows, drywall, doors, etc. those are the huge ticket items...I just changed all that. trust me, i hated paying those bills.good luck.

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I've been trying to find areas with little rain too and I think the main reason for that is the wear and tear on a bigger ticket item like a roof, but I'm sure the trade-off with that is warmer climates would likely need more HVAC work which is just another big ticket item that can potentially go bad too.