Look into a "cash out refinance" loan if you want to unlock equity without selling.

---------Here are just a few photos of the conference (below).

Before and after pictures can be seen here:[url]http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryan_rei/sets/

Investors in my area pay drivers $15/house to shoot photos and estimates repairs for them.

I would add a photo of the house and perhaps a map showing the home and relative location of the comps.

To all of you who donated - here's what you helped make - (scroll to the bottom to see the updated photos) -http://www.tal-gur.com/blog/index.php/archives/helping-in-the-dominican-republic#june Maybe it's just me, but this makes me much prouder than any cashflow, equity etc in the bank. :)))

One other sign of a good report is plenty of photos.

When my mom goes to the house, she takes damage photo's and writes a list of repairs needed so I can get these to the bank.

I have a licensed property manager who visits the places monthly and takes photos for me and shows them when empty.

You should be able to tell from the listing, the photos, etc what is not worth it.