Branham,It seems like you are seeing great opportunities to buy and that a successful acquisition of a distressed new subdivision could both save you the hassels of those initial set ups as well as you could prosper at the same time that you help to prevent libilities associated with un-managed properties in your area.Your ability to leverage into the deal would help determine whether you would only control the property of a while, or you would be able to continue what is left to completion of the construction to make the properties saleable in the near future.Your ability to leverage also help you keep options open as other investing opportunities comes along the way such as cash flowing properties that you can receive on-going income from while you focus on reselling the homes in your subdivision individually.There are many great opportunities in this market, however, they are not great opportunities for you if you are not able to get involved.

However, I would not kill anyone to prevent that from happening.You want me to kill someone, you'll have to come up with a different incentive.Pressing a button to kill some one for a million bucks is no different than taking out life insurance on someone and then murdering them to collect the $.And crikey, let's face it, even for those with ethics tettering on the edge, a million dollars isn't much money these days.

In general diversification may not make you money, but it may prevent you from loosing.

This has stabalized the property values, prevented further rapid declines, lowered invesntory levels creating more demand than supply, and thus, all this translates into more savings for the bank.

If so how did you prevent that in the future?

If you consider it a crime, how do you prevent them from benefitting financially from that crime?

Israel stopped Hamas activists from running a blockade set up to prevent arms going into Gaza to be purposely used against civilians.

This is a very public, search-able forum where someone who lives in the community of your trashed family member can find out what you are saying and create unnecessary gossip and heartache for them and by default - for you.

Do you also have some provision in your contract to prevent the buyer from asking for frivolous repairs?

That's the situation we were in and a simple solution to eliminate the race to the bottom AND the problem of adverse selection is to pass a law preventing insurance companies from denying someone based on a prre-existing condition.Insurance companies are actually quite happy with the rule that does not allow them to deny patients based on pre-existing conditions because it increases their revenues and profits.