Also, if the appraisal won't support that extra few thousand bucks, it doesn't work.

I also went to a couple other sites that had the same information.Whats interesting is, I checked this a few days ago and it was a few thousand dollars less.

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Renée I highly recommend you take a look at expired listings as many of my students have been successful getting started doing lease-option assignments to expired listingsThey want to sell and usually they don't have a lot of equity so a rent to own solution sometimes works well for themTypical deal is hundred thousand dollar house 95,000 loanMake 3 to 5% on a lease option assignment

After nearly three decades of probates and many, many hundreds (thousands?) 

To believe anyone can buy a 40K house, borrow 75% as you implied and pull 400 as profit per door, I'd have to see tax returns, through thousands of loans and LL deals, I've never seen that.5.

I'd rather pay a few thousand for a fish then $5 for a lead they couldve sold to someone else too.

I suppose in LA you can get away with that, because each unit rents for thousands per month, lol.Just be very cautious with your budget on a buy and hold full reno.