Follow them.If you are able to proceed without legal representation you should first attend several court sessions to see how others do it.Even so, around here Magistrates run their little fiefdoms as they please -- athough you can certainly appeal a ruling should you have the time, energy, money and willingness to piss the Magistrate off.

Some of that will get burned up just making the purchase.

As with any business, and maybe even more so in real estate, having priorities is crucial in determining where our energies are best and most efficiently focused.

Jumped in - got burned and learned - made money lost some - broke even - but the point was I jumped in and did it.

If you don't focus all your energy on taking care of the crops you put in, you are totally wasting the resources you do have.

Hell, Fannie and Freddie are now accepting 125% LTV and the Cap and Trade bill has a provision that ALL homes must meet new energy standards per the EPA before they can be sold.Can you imagine what an inspection will cost???

new siding, energy efficient windows, roof and boiler within past 5 years.

They don't burn well and I don't have the 2K to dump these stupid things.

Hope that some kids burn it down after you have insurance on it.I won't touch a home that old.

So we took the advise and began educating cramming getting guidance and direction from other REI's on the venture with a burning desire to succeed for our children's future.So we took the knowledge and began applying it in the real world calling and looking at several potential properties and spending hours after work into the late hours sorting pictures and data for each property and researched rehab cost and run the numbers of the ARV no higher then 65% THEN THE ROAD BLOCK POF POF BEFORE WE COULD EVEN MAKE AN OFFER NEED POFAND FINDING AN HML OR PML makes us feel like we are dealing with a NATIONAL BANK.