Once it is attached, they can jack up the footing if needed.This is all based on the type of soils but usually helical's can be used in majority of soils unless the house was build on limestone or a giant rock.

Hey all, Have a problem tenant who caused ~$2000 in damages and some unpaid utilities... let her dog soil the carpet and refused to pay water bill last few months. 

If there is a healthy margin between the two I assume the property should have positive cash flow.As far as the apartment i mentioned, it is not in a war zone by any means but obviously not in the most pristine part of town.

My first deal I paid 78% (purchase price + repairs) and made a pretty healthy profit.

All the people who bought right are cashing in on you just like the real estate cycle.I will say if you saw my other post that currently there are 1 million foreclosed residential properties that banks are holding in the United States.Only 300,000 are on the market.That's 700,000 properties of shadow inventory.Another 4 million foreclosure filings are going to be in motion soon.Banks are releasing in small amount as to not devastate the market.If they all put on now recovery would be faster but banks couldn't handle it.They need to dump say 100 properties at a time and make xx number of healthy loans to keep margins.On California I have read of a new tax law that could devastate investors there to help balance your states budget.I would have to dig up that article but it is recent.

Hi,After hours and hours of reading about buying a rental investment for the purposes of holding it for 5-10 years then selling at a nice healthy profit hopefully.

They are caused by settling soil.

Is it because the structural members are warped and it can't "get" level, or is it because the house is sitting on expansive soils and it won't "stay" level?

Put it on the market at a healthy positive cash flow.

I was a perfectly healthy, athletic 30 year old woman before this.