Just wanted to drop in and say hi.I'm new to the forum.

I would love to drop a trailer on it but if I want to stay on her good side, it will have to be prettier than that. :)

I'm thinking about dropping a few bucks on some xmas lights to string around the front of the building, and up the staircase to brighten things up for the holidays.About $30 for a decent amount of lights, and I assume the electricity isn't that much for the tiny little lights..

I'm not loving the idea of my current home's value dropping dramatically.All I can think of is that my current home could eventually become a rental, and I move on to buy an additional house to live in...???

Not just because the enormous rents, but also the temperature, which is always much lower than in the East Bay.But, whenever I read an article in SFgate.com about the ellis act etc, there are people commenting that they own a house in SF and they'd rather keep it empty than take the risk of putting a tenant in.So, I'm always thinking, if I wanted to live in SF, I would approach them and offer for them a lien against one of my houses or some other guarantee, that will give them security that I'd move out when they want me to.

That way if the market prices drop you are still in good position.

That potential profit can drop quickly if things don't go as planned.

We did look in Florida around Sanibel but it was not cash flowing like we wanted and we don't know that area well so we dropped it.

That was about 6 months ago when I dropped my management job and hit the ground running with the program.

I'll make sure that's dropped at the right time if we make it to negotiations.I thought $158,000 to get her out from under it and an ARV of ~$250,000 would make for a pretty sweet wholesale or even rehab it ourselves considering it doesn't take an exorbitant amount of money to fix it up (crossing fingers for cosmetics only) or to get her out.As for the liens i think you're right about the tax lawyer.