Last week, I happened upon a community action meeting and I met with a former representative of the "ancient" community redevelopment agency (CRA), (remember those days guys?)

A thorough rehab plan to update the ancient systems should be considered.

Hi, all:Sorry for resuscitating an ancient thread.

Also just bumped into this ancient thread on the subject as I searched for this book-- other offerings from our colleagues, 9 years ago.  

I turn on the Greek news regularly and see places that I know well going up in flames, desperate rioters throwing Molotov cocktails at the police, EU and Greek officials routinely making surreal pronouncements and projections about the economy for one politically-expedient reason or another that has no basis in fact.Bad things happen.

I find it increasingly amazing that so many do not understand the way things worked just a year ago is ancient history.If you are buying REO and have the ability to perform, meaning ready access to the funds, you are in the drivers' seat.

Any combination of the above 3.And since the first option was invented by the Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus 2,600 years ago when he optioned the right to rent olive presses from their owners, I can tell you right now, there ain't nothing new in real estate.

Get a straw buyer, act as 203K consultant (in PA you only need three registered years), hire straw contractor, do work yourself and pay off your crew, rinse and repeat, more money comes in, add a second crew, sit in the middle of a web of people, all of them kicking back to the Greek...

Stay away from knob-and-tube wiring, galvanized water supply pipes, ancient gravity-fed hydronics converted coal-burning boiler arrangements, foundation issues.Why a duplex and not a more profitable triplex or quadplex?

Hello everyone, my name is Roxanne (or Roxani in Greek)I am Romanian living between Greece and NY.