My instinct told me that this guy was tweaking/jonesing and needed to sell the ladder for cash for drugs.

If all the homes on the street are single family residential, guess what, yours is going to be too.

(Brandon Turner nice "thug lean" in the family pic) ;) Chris, if you can deal with helping people wean off drugs and all that goes with that, you will translate that compassion and understanding into working with distressed sellers/renters.

v=xBNlZ2dqWgYNice J Scott, that 10 on fourth street was beautiful!

When he moves out of the house I am purchasing from him, he is going to move into another house he owns just down the street which he pays mortgage on.I was thinking of ways to help him out so that he doesn't have to worry about the bank taking his second house away.

LolI ran down the street (home in my friends complex) talked it over with my friends.It took a good long talk to compare notes..he said she said stuff.

Rich Weese, if you like that one, check out google street view.

BUT I like to sit down and have a beer with them and counsel them and explain why it is better for THEM if they move out, I tell them ïf they get out in X (3 for one who was doing drugs and 7 for the one not paying rent) amount of days I will forgive them of the debt and we can all still be friends...

The comps in the area are selling anywhere from $340K to $440K... the only problem is the house I'm purchasing happens to be at the edge of the neighborhood where those comps are listed, which happens to be on a fairly busy road and a condo complex directly across the street.

I decided to pursue it knowing full well that if it panned out I was going to have a hectic evening.Sure enough, Mark visited the property immediately and I was walking on the street listening to the play-by-play of each room.