I researched this neighborhood some more and it is full of REOs being flipped.

The attic is semi completed, just needs heat to be a 4th) Location is fair....not a bda neighborhood, just on a high traffic street, and has a 3 car garage which 2 spots are deeded to the house.

I'm finding that renters have more rights than landlords.Here's my scenario: Beautiful house, bad houses around me but neighborhood is climbing up the ladder for the better.

Even I think I'm nuts, but the lot adjoins a property I already own and in it's current condition the vacant, vandalized, dilapidated house needing rehab is affecting not only my property value but the neighborhood.

He may be thinking he's improving his site rankings by using your content but the search engines are getting increasingly clever at identifying duplicate content and penalising the raking as a result.

Certainly, that might be possible for one bad house in a neighborhood of nice ones.

I have seen similar properties for about $100K less but the amount of repair required and the neighborhoods they are in make them prohibitive.Mark

Here are the keys to using a birddog: figure out what kind of real estate you want and be specific (ex: 4-plexes in worker class neighborhoods and no association fee).

Having said that, the swimming pool issue is a life safety issue, and the city, county or state should jump on that if you contact the right office, especially when you mention serious concerns about the neighborhood children.

[b]Agents provide two big buckets of info: 1) "neighborhood knowledge" and 2) navigation of the legal paperwork and process.