As Accountants on BP we cannot self-promote.To help in and help in the search:be sure to find an accountant who is willing to grow with you, and is not too high priced fee-wise.

You basically go see the properties, use the formula:  ARV x 0.7 - improvement cost - assignment fee would be your offer.

However you need to remember if it takes 2 years to foreclose you will have about $3,000 in legal fees and 2 years worth of new taxes and water bills, and potentially fines, that you will have to catch up also.

Originally priced at 637,000 and agreed on $617,000 How did you finance this deal?

I know there are fees you paid like title, inspections and what not so minus those fees which were around $1,000.00.

A day before the redemption period was up, we paid the $1,123.34 tax debt and fees and bought the property from the seller for $500.

I am currently in the process of purchasing a property in Upstate NY that was originally listed as a Mobil home.

Small issues with liquidated some other assets to fund the entry fee.

On one of my Indianapolis area properties I have to pay the trash/sewer fees (a fixed amount that might go up every 3 to 4 years).

There isn't anything on their site about umbrellas which is what the original question was about.