If someone makes a racist remark, I would call them racist, if they don't then I won;t.

Jon, I dont want to violate any forum policy, so I wont post a link.

I know that 9/10 I wont break even, but I'm not looking to take a total loss.

As title insurance was introduced the title company would want those records destroyed as they may be evidence of a title interest that may not have been recorded years ago, and could present grounds for claims.

If you are new to this (as I am) and think you will save money by doing some work yourself the first time - you wont so don't.Having spent months painting the upstairs unit of a duplex and "playing around" installing new window locks, replacing doors, drilling door locks, etc, I met someone at a Real Estate investors group that had his crew come in and lay new floors in the entire downstairs unit and and paint all walls and ceilings in about a week.

.- we had another tree fall on our condo and destroy our fireplace, it took a year for them to fix it at the cost of not being able to sell our condo (as it was on the market at the time).- Association members came onto our property without notification and my husband was going out the back door and our dog ran passed him (the dog was inside but heard voices so ran out) and jumped on one of the assocation members (our dog was not viscous he is just big and he jumped).

Also, many times, the bank wont take less than 95% of list for the first 30 days of the listing.

This issue really wont' begin to work its way out until the employment and wage picture improves.

If you have good tenants who pay and aren't destroying the unit then you are ahead of the game.

With actual cash used they can feel comfortable and you wont have to wait 72hrs