If tank is still full and nobody flushed its fine,,,if empty its leaking more than you thought.With our harder water, some deposits,,,I have good luck flushing the stool and taking my finger to where flapper seats and de scum that,,,also edge of flapper where it seals.

Any seller seconds are "de facto equity" for the investor/principal because in theory it would satisfy the debt holder's requirements to procure additional debt.

@Nancy Neville I owned 16 units when I lived in DE and I could not agree with you more.

It's not a leading indicator of desirability but you can combine it w/ other data, such as provided by @Wendell De Guzman, to decide if it's someplace you want to live and/or invest.  

the house was located in a cul de sac (which i like)  but if u saw the house you would think no way that house is 320,000!!  

Il y a quelques investisseurs de Québec ici sur le site, un couple de Trois Rivières et plusieurs de MTL.

I'm in Delaware so I personally don't know how the market is in Boston but if you could find a motivated seller who just wants to sell thier property bc of foreclosure, death in the house, property the owner doesn't want or etc. if you can find this someone who is motivated, that would be easier than trying to wholesale a REO property bc its gonna be harder trying to wholesale a REO bc your end buyer (typically a house flippers) can simply buy it themselves so if you have a motivated seller who has a property or even a stressed one that they want to get rid of, the goal is to get it for a low price to where you can make some profit off of it and to where the numbers still work for your end buyer who lets say is a house flipper can still make 20-30k bc they do all the hard work and you can still simply charge an assignment fee of however big or small to where the numbers still make sense but an off the market property is definitely the way to go.

It's not a guarantee that you (the buyer) won't walk away but it does help to de-risk the deal for a lender. 

I think I heard Wendell De Guzman do something like this.

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