Unless there is some kind of approval from the PA Department of Revenue on the exact language/method you rely on, parties at the closing are taking a gamble.

Bristol - Bristol Motor speedway, NHRA Drag races and now Pinnacle retail market (border city with VA)JC - ETSU (med school, pharmacy school and source for talent), Regional Medical center and newly formed Ballad HealthKingsport (KPT) - Eastman chemicals, also a VA border town and gateway to lower income AppalachiaThings you wont find on the Internet, include the smell of the chemical plant in KPT, and recent fire and community scares related to plant activity.

Contact me for any of your cross border needs.

I think @Clint Moore is right about the predatory lending rules being tough once you get into lower loan values.I've never tried, but I guess technically you could try to hope for a good appraisal and take out a larger loan... could be a gamble though.Could you do a HELOC on your primary residence and use that to buy the duplex?

I recently read several articles about San Francisco itself, which is of course 50 miles or so from Silicon Valley (which itself has no defined borders as its not an actual city, county, etc just a general area) and how many long time locals are fed up with how extremely expensive even formerly impoverished parts of SF have become.

Was looking around for a beach vacation rental and see a lot that are priced nicely south of the border in places like Rosarito Beach, La Paz or Cabo San Lucas. 

I don't like gambling, I only like to make bets I can win.

@Charlie Miller um... whatever you say, dude.Chestnut ridgeSame area, Nanuet, on the other side of the border.

Oh, one last thing: there's a tribal gaming casino planned to be built in the southmost-central portion of the city which people take as a great benefit or the end of the world, depending on how you feel about gambling and/or money. :)

Biggest thing for me that after going back and forth on the main page and here is I've noticed that the little grey border is gone for this part which makes the whole screen white so there isn't any way to separate anything.