Ben raises a good point.You want to buy using the formula so that you can flip to an investor who has crap credit.

However, you'll never find a SFH for under $150k in downtown Orlando, where the median price is in the mid-200s.That said, and as I just wrote in my prior post, I know Zillow is crap, but it's Very hard to find anything for sale less than tax-assessed value.

He happens to outsource some of the work to a short sale team as my friend knows he is crap at follow up with corporate types (loss mitigation folks).

You see so much crap out there that it makes you raise an eyebrow at everyone...

Can I just haul her crap away and move on?

Knowing BEFOREHAND is much better than allowing your excitement to control your decisions, and ending up with maxed out credit cards and ruined credit.I'm always looking for new ideas, and in this industry, it looks like a crap shoot at times.

(I don't deal in short-sales anymore, but I do short-sale BPOs for a few of my bank clients; and man can I tell you some stories about the crap I've seen - from otherwise well-to-do, upstanding business people that happen to be "criminal" investors).

IMHO, estimates provided by contractors, licensed OR unlicensed, corporate or one-horse operations, are pretty much a crap shoot.

I didn't mean to file a claim, crap I have 3% deductible, short of a total burn down I don't file claims.

I don't paint them unless they're crap.