By the time she was 18 she had endured two separate 3-year stints with braces, multiple oral surgeries and implant surgery.

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Allow for multiple appraisals with an appraiser (or appraisers) of your sole choosing.

A nuisance property shall be any property which is in violation of the Borough property maintenance requirements by being in a substantial state of uncleanliness, disorder or disrepair; any property substantially damaged by fire, flood or other natural disaster; any property determined to be uninhabitable by the Code Enforcement Officer; or any property which is occupied by any tenant who has engaged in any or all of the following conduct:1.

Unfortunately, we've seen multiple bid scenarios with each property so far--and haven't gotten that first deal.  

Around here, the only property - other than vacant land - for sale under $100K is either a dilapidated 2-bdrm "shack" on the outskirts of town (and it's listed at 89K) or an old house in a very rural setting.Even bank repo "Johnny Canuck" house {65 - 70 yr old, 1.5 story 2-3 bdrm houses built by/for returning soldiers after WWII} full of deferred maintenance are going for $135K {two in the last two weeks}.The 30-40K houses and 89-100K 4-plexes you read about on Bigger Pockets is what is enticing investors here to look south (sometimes even further south than the U.S.A).If I had enough cash-on-hand to be purchasing multiple 4 - 6 unit properties outright (at 250-500K a pop), I'd be in the private lending business and not the buy-and-hold business.

I know you can do multiple properties in a 1031 exchange but I don't know specifically if there is a limit.

got my first target area list for my first letters to be sent, and i've read multiple time about sending to a particular list multiple times in a few months span. do you update the list after 3,4,5 direct mailings or is it a certain amount of months/year(s)?

I think I have a pretty good insurance man here in the DFW area...has really saved us some money on our properties.Try Ryan Morgan with TWG Insurance...214-838-5408...He works with multiple carriers....good luck.

Versus investors who are numbers-driven, make decisions a lot faster, less hand-holding, and a lot of them pay cash (not all) so the providers are able to sell through multiple houses more in the same period of time than with primary homebuyers and with a fraction of the hand-holding headaches.As far as the markups, I wrote an article about my take on them0http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2013/02/16/turnkey/