Even once my bid was accepted by HUD I had to pay one of their servicing companies to allow electricity and water to be turned on in the subject property.5.HUD misrepresented the property as having 2 bathrooms.

You'll probably not have any parking except on the street, and you'll most likely need to walk around the back of the building, up a narrow set of stairs, to a 'cozy' apartment with the bathroom door in the cramped kitchen.

I recently closed on a duplex (2BR, 1BA, 1152 sq. ft. each) that needs some work done in each of the bathrooms.

The green bathroom in what looks like the master to me is a specific buyer taste thing.

My parents came home to find that the upstairs bathroom had a leak from one of the bolts not being tight enough.

According to their site: Physical attributes: Location, lot size, square footage, number of bedrooms and bathrooms and many other details.Tax assessments: Property tax information, actual property taxes paid, exceptions to tax assessments and other information provided in the tax assessors' records.Prior and current transactions: Actual sale prices over time of the home itself and comparable recent sales of nearby homesSo what they're giving is the ARV by their estimate.

I sent my electrician an email and this was his response:"I'll only be using GFCI receptacles where needed, i.e.kitchen, bathroom, basement, laundry,etc.

The only white cabinets I own are semi custom in my own master bathroom, and the carcass paint has yellowed dramatically compared to the thermofoil doors, looks pretty awful.I'm a fan of cliched finishes in my century old buildings.

Jennifer Lee I'd say if you can't afford to stage a house completely, so that it has enough furnishings and decor to spark the imagination of the buyer envisioning living there, then focus on staging the bathroom and kitchen simply but of a quality befitting the potential home buyer, and make sure the house is painted in a neutral colors (that doesn't mean everything has to be builder beige!)

(kitchens/bathrooms are small, avg lam flooring cost is $150)Misc materials (plywood/2x4's/paint/cool seal) usually runs about $250.If you need appliances, stoves and refrigerators are about $75 a piece on craigslist.So for about $1,500 you've got a mobile home with no leaks, solid floors, fresh paint, new carpet, new wood flooring and ready to sell.