Fortunately my wife handled finances for her mom and had a joint account together for over 20 years, so we said "if you want to see seasoned funds, here is our seasoned funds".The ridiculous part about this is we plan on using $20K out of $120K line.We also had a ridiculous issue with the DTI.

Some of the smaller cities of the midwest are declining in economic fortune and even population.  

We've made strong money from the sale of our first house thanks to my hard work and our good fortune; and now we find that we have the money to flip a house over the winter.

. - I've been fortunate to never have a vacancy.

I'm fortunate that a number of the tenants work in specialty trades and labor, so I'm developing my own in-house team.Please feel free to introduce yourself or send any recommendations my way.

The story fortunately has a happy ending, though not without some drama.

Fortunately he does trust me and agreed to deed it over to me for a small cash deposit.

@Guy Yarkoni, I have property in Jacksonville myself and I was fortunate enough that mine was left untouched and NOT flooded.

Fortunately massive action is my specialty.

Thanks Linda, I was leaning in that direction...... septic was already pumped, was super full, but checked out okay fortunately!