Also I am not pointing finger or anything , I just want the project moving, and you might not understand the pain of paying all those maintainance fees while the contractor playing arround.

There are two houses on my block that sold for $950K in 2007.

A new paining would probably do more to keep them around, but also more expensive.

If you havent already, I would allocate funds to the exterior paint job and landscaping, to ensure that it pops enough to "one-up" the other homes on the block.

Most have some way to extract the data, but its usually somewhat painful.

Mark drew up the paperwork fast as I scrambled to find a FedEx/Kinkos 5 blocks from the bar.

And I've seen that many who do touch them end up half way through the project and realize they're trying to drive a car with no wheels that propped up on cinder blocks.

Contracted with gas co. to install new gas line, which required tearing up the street, 2 flagmen and a policeman directing traffic for the disabled traffic light down the block.

I would be paying cash, and then looking to refinance later.Comps are hard to determine, because the area is very block-to-block, but I think that if the property were fixed up, it would sell for closer to $90-100k.I'm an athletic guy, and I feel comfortable walking around at night but wouldn't want my friends to live there.Layout is one 2 bedroom apt, and two studios.

I would check comparable homes and see what the average size of those rooms are.You would hate to put in all that money into adding a bedroom and bath and end up having the smallest bedrooms on the block.