DIG meets in the holiday inn at Fort Washington PA on the last Thursday of every month.

Ryan D. to answer you question on a previous thread I am on the North Side, Portage Park, Albany Park and Lincoln Square) .  

The A/C guy just put more freon in it, he basically patched it up for another year.....Also with a heat pump the techs DO NOT put extra freon in your unit when they installed it to compensate for the 50-100 foot lineset/pipes that run up the wall, so you are already short on freon the day they install the unit, you just dont know about it....If you went with a package unit (the square rectangle kind that is all outside) you shouldnt have to worry about being short freon because  its precharged from the manufactor (I trust them more than a green helper that just started in the A/C business), and you shouldnt have to worry about carpenters, or sheet rock guys punching a nail threw the pipes that run up the side of the wall because its all self contained in that outdoor unit...Thus they call it a "Package Unit."

I just passed the WA state real estate broker exam yesterday.

Here in California you have 17 days to get out of a contract for any reason, the dirt is too brown, the A/C is too cold, the house is too square, whatever.

The additional square footage did not add much additional value since homes in the neighborhood typically sold in a particular price range. 

@Ned Carey   Too funny would not think any East coast folks would know who Joe Kaiser is.No Joe got hammered by the WA AG for doing tax sale overages.

So I looked at a 3br property that is around 900 square feet today. 

Here's a listing of all the REIA (Real Estate Investment Association) in Washington State:http://www.reiclub.com/real-estate-clubs/Washingto...The one that I've started going to is called REAPS (Real Estate Association of Puget Sound).  

Given 300 square feet of bedroom space, a 10x16 master and two tiny 7x10 kids rooms is better than 3 10x10s, but it will still rent.