Wood destroying (termites, powder post beetles, acrobat ants, carpenter ants, etc) can wreck havoc and add up to costly structural work and other expensive stuff. 

The house is on 10 wooded acres in a semi-rural area.

She desperately needed her carpet torn out and laminate wood flooring planks installed in about 600 square feet of her home.

We were always prowling for the coolest "satellite" houses and would pay a premium to get them.

Concrete or Wood?

My opinion is that (at least in my neck of the woods) it barely happens.2) The one thing I see many wholesalers overlook is the importance of establishing a good 'rapport' with your seller.

Reddit seems pretty interesting but I do not need another website to spend time on...time is at a premium for me lately!

We took some money out of our 401k remodeled the kitchen (gut job), resurfaced the hard wood floors, and painted all the rooms.

I live in a college town in Ohio where demand is ridiculously high due to students (most leases on good properties are signed at least a year in advance) and the number of good rentals is finite, so students (including myself right now) definitely pay a premium to rent.

So it's a masonry building wih brick load bearing walls or wood frame with a brick facade?