You are right about section 8 tenants, it can be a "win"for both the tenant -- better schools and neighborhood --and for the owner who gets a good cash stream.How about it guys...any section 8 owners out there?

So I would assume that the winning bidder would have to pay 10% of the winning bid as hand money, but in yesterdays news paper it showed all the properties up for auction and under the listing each properties had a hand money amount.

With that said, if you are just dealing with joe bloe property seller then they can discuss terms with you and, you can try to work out a win win for everyone.

Your best bet with this is to get ahold of the county tax property tax records department and simply ask them.

You have to be in it to win it!

Moreover, real estate appreciation is running 25% per annum on pre-construction purchases and around 15% per annum on completed units..... combine this with possible Tax benefits for US Offshore Investors and the Philippines has to be a "Win-Win" opportunity....

At some point the sprawl will be contained either through boundaries like Indian reservations (to the south of Phx) or simply too great of a distance from jobs to make people's commutes worthwhile -- which will jack up prices in places where people have already built, which means even more appreciation for home values.The big negative here is that these are cities in the desert, and if drought keeps going (a real possibility), then there might not be the natural resources there much longer that would sustain the population, which of course would mean people selling and moving out and losing a lot on their real estate investments.

The question was is there an opportunity out there for someone to join in some kind of partnership simply by virtue of having credit scores all over 800.

Only late in the game did I realize that it would be easier to win the lottery than offload it.

death, no one to do it. 5. simply waited too long before choosing to sell.