Very few markets have rates below $0.50 per square foot per month as long as the property is clean enough and well run though most of my experience is on my side of the Mississippi:)!

Avoid the section where you talk to someone and they try to sell you countertops per square foot.

I do believe it's as simple as "No" with no explanation but again, as soon as you start to talk about how she has kids.. it could become a situation where she feels discriminated against for having kids.Unless it's a big place square foot wise.

I wouldn't touch a condo with a ten foot pole.

Enjoy the times you are going downhill, and keep your head down and put one foot in front of the other on the uphill.”On the downhill- focus of improving your systems (contractors, improving systems, maintenance).On the uphill- do whatever it takes.

I also believe their fence is a foot on my side of property line on either side of the barn.  

With auction.com, you cannot set foot in the property, so the bank can hide issues.So, in summary, if you know that you are willing to go the long haul and rehab the property no matter what the case may be, you must get it at a price that meets the expectation of “everything must be fixed”.

I know the market well and am buying at $450 per square foot where the typical sale is in the $680 to $850 per square foot range. 

We are seeing stress in the PDX lux market IE over built a tad for high end new apartments and in our market you cannot make anything pencil if its not high end lux .. given that 300 to 400 bucks a foot to build nothing else works.  

I want to get a foot in real estate by doing a subject to deal.