Grab a box-cutter knife, cut it in 2'x4' sections and dispose of it yourself.Appliances you can get at scratch and dent places.

Use a lawyer to draft it up instead of just using a cookie cutter agreement.

They have not sold it to just anyone because they didn't want it to be another cookie cutter mountain top community.( I am looking to put in a Co-housing Community)So the return on investment is more from the stance of putting my name to something unique to my area & something I am passionate about.

Although I stopped investing in IL several years ago, mainly because I'm close to Chicago and the county auctions here seemed a little "rigged".

The home is not the everyday home you see in the cookie cutter neighborhoods.This is a log home with no drywall inside. 3800 sqft, 4/3 bedroom with a loft (the loft has a closet).

However, I do know how to refinish wood (radios), so we will probably refinish all of the cabinetry in our house (also a good excuse to buy an HVLP spray rig...).

Over time, they've allowed me to use some of what I grew in my IRA to form an SDIRA and use those funds for REI.My bottom line is I think people are using a rule of thumb "Be debt Free" as a cookie cutter "key to financial success" when I think the timing (related to interest rates) makes this the best time ever to borrow money for anyone who is young and making investments for long term growth.

And the 2nd part of the series goes into the bid rigging by a handful of folks.

Now it's at $2 again, and the rig count is down 46% from last year, setting you guys in the cold states up for a whoopin'.

I sold it in '75 for $4,800 to a fellow grad & he assumed the mtg & the roomies.It only had one bath so we rigged up a urinal & shower outside against the back wall between the banana trees, but 10 ft from the bar.It Sold in 2009 for $975,000 with property taxes of $1,660 a year.I guess I missed that 'buy & hold' RE course.