@Danny Nelson do not pay a penny upfront, tell him everything goes through your title co .

If he gets foreclosed on, I probably would never see a penny of the $25k....I had a real estate agent walk through the house and want to list it at 125k.

Spend a few hours covered in caustic dust, mold spores, asbestos, spatters of any sort of rubberized coating or modified mortar, or worst of all, globs of septic waste.

I’ve been saving every penny and investing heavily in crypto currency.

If you have aluminum wiring on the regular receptacle and light circuits, think hard about rewiring to eliminate it.This is mostly a 1970s thing - the price of copper went up and aluminum wire became popular for a while. 

Shutters - fresh coat of paint to match the green of the roof? 

I do a mix of large corp for the stability and a few small, almost penny stocks.

Save and penny pinch for your down payment, and parents can help toward down payment.

despite all of these issues we thankfully bought the property at such a good rate of return we haven't lost a penny!

air handlers have more copper inside them. condensers have less and you cannot scrap them without proof of ownership. they cut up the coil in the air handler into tiny pieces of copper and then take it to a scrap yard.