. - I don't think Rich is looking for a professional blueprint, just an idea quickly noted on a piece of paper with some dimensions, or, in the case of Karen's son, a professional draft only in order to help him better his skills.I agree what you say about a well designed home, and I wouldn't expect (nor I doubt Rich would) a draftsmen to come up with a design just to submit into a pool of other designs for $500.

Looked underneath water heater and saw a pool of water.

Look for the prospectus, how the pool operates and it will even list the direct phone numbers to the Trustee.

It's hard to get below the HOA fee level in a SFH when you consider all it covers -- usually lawn, roof, building exterior, pool, etc.

Rising housing prices coupled with modestly higher interest rates will incentivize lenders to further loosen lending standards to historical norms which will open up the buyers pool and effectively negate the loss of buying power from modestly higher rates.

MoserEditorWhile a nude female swimmer in his Camelot subidivision home's backyard pool had him distracted, the woman's accomplice was inside the victim's home stealing his personal property.

You could filter the list to include only absentee owners and then further to include only those purchased something like 5 years ago or more to eliminate some of the investors from the pool.

Buy a rental and sit by the pool while the cash pours in.

Unless you live in a market that is a great investment market, you are not going to find the great deals that many of us are finding working in your back yard.

I think there were about 30 vendors total and 80% of them were "Buying Real Estate in my hyper-awesome --insert town in FLA-- Back Yard".