We just found a great condo in Morton Grove, IL that is a GREAT price and that after he would buy, my parents would rent there (currently they rent in glenview) These are all very nice areas, and I have made some calls to hard money lenders and that is just not the route I think I want to take.I would like to meet a private lender who can appreciate healthy returns, not some brokers who will just tack on more points and raise the rate.I really appreciate all the responses. ***********, did that answer your question?

My girlfriends parents have a vacant house next door which could be very nice but it's been vacant for quite some time and it's showing the signs.

I grew up watching my parents manage real estate and am in the process of buying my first investment property.

That will be difficult, from what I understand "B"s cell phone has been disconnected and even the person's parents don't know where they live.

Moving the foundation/basement to a new location.So was his ... have a boo at the HGTV's House of Bryan (Season 1) ... my wife watched it and decided that is how we should "renovate" our 1950s bungalow ;-)The show is full of product placement shots ... which means much material was likely 'donated' for PR purposes.

My parents will be coming over to live with us in 1.5 years which is when we need atleast 3 bed rooms.You probably are thinking how is it fallback plan?

My parents used them in RE and people would start conversations in parking lots and ask a question!

I talk to their friends, their parents, their landlord, their former landlords etc.

I've been coming to Melbourne since I started surfing when I was 10, my parents moved here when I was in college and I moved here as well.

Though I'm on the east cost (an hour from the McCain foods headquarters), my parents are both flat landers whose families where amongst the first to homestead in the Carberry (by Brandon) and Basswood/Newdale (NW of Minnedosa) areas.