I've seen some incredibly shoddy work, and egress is often an issue with basement bedrooms.

They'll fall more in the near term for ONE reason alone: There's no money to waste, barely enough to survive among 15% of the populace (10% is a FARCE and everybody already knows it)...In THIS 2004 presentation alone is found the entire Bernanke approach to the current environment.

st. augustine/floratamit grows well here in FL and can tolerate droughts. it's also incredibly thick.

What an incredible website this is and what a pleasure it is to be a part of it.

In today's credit challenged environment every wholesaler should be able to direct their buyers to a lender who will finance the deal.

Insurance is now worse then ever and his new property tax abatement program just penalizes business which is incredibly short-sited and will lead to business going elsewhere.

If you are in a low interest rate environment, with crashing homes prices (where I'm looking - as of course markets tend to overcorrect..), but demographics for the area look sound, and inflation is very likely going to exceed the 10 year avg in the near future... then someone should be able to find a 50% rule property now - but even if they only come close, it could be a very sound investment, and a great way to diversify for a guy (me :D ) who owns no property, pays no rent, and is has all his savings in stocks/bonds.

I expect that it will be incredibly shallow followed by another protracted decline.

cash out refis are incredibly difficult to obtain on investment properties right now. also, some lenders will give pushback on a 'refi' of a hard money loan.

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