The Orange County Register ran this article by me on 11/6/2011, and I though you-all might like it.Debt is the worst drug in America, because it directly harms the most people.The debt pushers have enlisted builders, retailers and real estate agents to sing their siren songs of “buy now, pay later” and “buy more and bigger with credit.”

This tells me that utilities will be a struggle, and gives a lot of insight to the financial habits of a person.Joe, what do you do anyway?

He has been there 7 years but I do not want them to get in the habit of paying me 2 weeks into it.

He drives a 1996 Ford.Ingvar Kamprad, founder of IKEA, is worth an estimated $3.5 billion(Forbes, 2015).He drives a fifteen-year old Volvo and always flies economy class.His home in Switzerland is decorated with inexpensive IKEA furniture.Ingvar is often seen with his wife eating in cheap markets and haggling over prices at the market.Carlos Slim Helú, the chairman and CEO of Telmex is worth an estimated $77.1 billion (Forbes, 2015).Though he’s the wealthiest man in the world, he is not an extravagant spender.He lives in a modest 6-bedroom house that he’s owned for over 30 years and still drives himself to work each day (Business Insider: Most Frugal Billionaires, 2015).These individuals are wealthy, partly because they built into their lives the habit of financial discipline and prudence and maintained this habit throughout their lives, even after their net worth grew to several billions.You can develop these habits too.It’s never too late.

Foreclosed properties are usually sold in cash or majority cash, or needs to be brought to a "habitable" state before they sell it to you officially. 6.

Your job is to provide habitable housing in exchange for money.

If you had multiple partners, this would actually might be harmful to you because if you dont overwrite on state statute, you have to follow the state statute on allocation or liquidation of LLC and stuff.

Cats have a great habit of spraying and pissing all over things and getting that smell out of drywall, flooring, carpet padding, etc is a nightmare.

No harm in listing the property for sale and building a potential buyers list, getting time to pre-qualify the buyers and perhaps get an idea of what they would pay and what finishes they would want.

You are likely to have a prescriptive easement anyway.If you tried to contact for weeks, and now you schedule the work on his property and you don't damage anything permanently, what's the harm?