The mid cities are in my back yard (I'm in Irving), and my favorite out of all DFW to work in.Just a couple of stray thoughts from reading your 1st post in this thread....There are plenty of people from BP here in town that can help you analyze and evaluate deals as you come across them.

Kenneth LaVoie, I agree with Jon and Josh, except for one thing: you want to advertise where your customers are looking.I personally advertise only with a sign in the yard, and on postlets, which gets sent out to hotpads, etc, and I post the postlets ad on craigslist, which gets me most of my responses. so all of this is free.However, if your customer base doesn't have computers, and doesn't have web access, you are spinning your wheels.

The tenant left 90% of their possessions, mostly salvageable in the home.Now that ownership has changed, collecting the money held hostage by the city will be hopefully the last piece of the puzzle.LL board posts with good exit strategy ideas: Free house (by Nicole [PA]) Posted on: Jun 18, 2012 5:56 AM Message: why not make a deal w/another investor - they take over everything and give you xx% when they sell it - that way you make something.as for donating, see if your local vo-tech high school has a need - it could be a project house - not sure what they actually do with them or perhaps they work through a group like habitat for humanity.--72.95.47.124 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Free house (by V [OH]) Posted on: Jun 18, 2012 6:41 AM Message: 2 things come to mind, your new warehouse while restoring - or a family member who wants a fixer-upper.--68.76.121.239 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Free house (by J [IN]) Posted on: Jun 18, 2012 6:50 AM Message: Why not put it on EBAY. who knows you may sell it for more than you think.

The competition has gotten tougher, but there are still deals to be had.What I WILL say is you probably won't find what you are looking for in your back yard, unless you consider condos or mobile units.

Then again they will be high end apartments inside a building and the building I own is one story, four units with front and back courtyards; I suppose there will always be a market for completely remodeled studios with front and back yards in downtown Delray East of federal highway.

I actually have a monthly yard cleaning service for some college tenants who kept getting the property sited for yard trash.

Our yard is like your neighbor's.

I created my ad in Postlets, and run it on Craigslist, and put a sign in the yard.

The yard is overgrown, the tree in the front yard completely blocks the front view of the house.

You enter mid level, which is a room that has one of the old style conversation pits that you step down to on one side , you can go downstairs to the kitchen/family room area which has sliders to the back yard, or from the main level you can go upstairs to the bedrooms.