The whole roof is only 6 years old.

They are asking $269,000 for the whole duplex.

That meant a full refrigerator had been left with the electricity off the whole year.

That is an expensive proposition and can ruin your whole year or worse.

If you break a lease you might be liable to pay for the whole year.

Having always been told that property is among the safest investments, I thought it would be a good way to get a slice of investment pie without forking over a whole lot of cash on a second home.

After six weeks with his new caregiver, he now wants my mother to sign a quit claim deed to the property so he can have the house sold when he dies and proceeds distributed to other people, (mainly his new housekeeper) who has now been successful in alienating my uncle from his whole family.

the KEY, i would say is BUYING BELOW MARKET VALUE...but that's a whole other post...bottom line, if you ain't buying below market, you're not investing, you're...doing what any other schlub can do and probably operating either too close to break even or just in the red period.

If there is a foundation problem and you're not going to be getting the whole place, I'd be very leary of even spending any more time on it.

that whole tax "incentive" is just the US gov't collaborating with bankers to brainwash the masses into thinking that debt is good!!!!!