They are very well positioned, but I think he's waiting for someone else to pull the trigger.

Should I pull a few extra thousand out of the refinance and hold it to cover like the mortgage when its not rented or any unforeseen repairs?

The particular part of the area that this house is in is the lower end of this area, so pulling a straight average price per square foot for the area would be inaccurate because it factors in the other very nice houses located in a different part of this area code.

He was half interested in it at the time, but then pulled out.

I have a 610 credit score, want to pull out max sum I bought it for 25k I think it should apraise for 35k.The loan amount is tiny.

zeeman, the nature of your questions makes me think that you'd be better off using a real estate agaent to get you started.

I have bought many deals that other investors were or already had looked at, but they didn't pull the trigger fast enough.

We pulled up the property on his PC & he made some calls etc.I told him the target price I'm seeking (under $200,000), & I observed his method for searching properties on the PC, which was for $220,000, he was confident he could negotiate the price down.Regarding the fees.

1000 business cards I cant give out, and all my advertising had to get pulled.

If not, I would pull the siding off around all windows and do it right.See this photo, installer is putting a weather proofing type material over the edge of the window, so water cannot penetrate from behind the siding.http://www.finehomebuilding.com/how-to/install-replacement-windows-and-flashing-correctly.aspx