Usually have no more than 1 month, many times just 2 weeks from the lawyer listing the foreclosure in the legal paper, the paper can take a week to get to you, you now have 1 week to look through the paper, contact the owners, do your due dilligence, and make a deal before the house is auctioned.)

From an investors standpoint go in and tell her what to do to get the house in showable condition.

A recent headline in my hometown paper points to more gloom-and-doom for Hamilton County Ohio while the Christian Science Monitor reports on conditions on the East Coast.What is going on?

The home sold for 255,000 and between the lawyers and the ex, I am once again broke.

Yes the price is a consideration but half off and in good condition, it should move.

Based upon this data we are looking at a projection of over 50 Major Disasters to hit the US by the end of 2006In addition, we are still recovering from fires in California, Colorado, New New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.Yet, we are still going to have to deal with past Hurricane damage.And we still face dry conditions in various parts of the United States that produce fires and we have yet to step into the Atlantic hurricane season that lasts from June to November, with the peak season from mid-August to late October.On top of all this over 350 tornadoes have been recorded as of April and this could be one of the most active and deadly seasons in historyFor more data see: http://www.spc.noaa.gov and To compare from 2005 to 2006 see: http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/online/monthly/index.htmlAs an investor we are tough to research property titles, market value and market trends but one major area that is left out is storm trends.Why storm trends.

ANY CONDITION ANY AREA ANY PRICE.

Taxes are hard so the people who can afford the best accountants and lawyers can find well concealed cop-outs on the biggest tax rates. 

:D The home has ceramic tile (good condition) in almost all of the house.

I had a Realtor out of TN tell me about a loan program where you buy the house in any condition as long as you have a bid from a contractor to repair/improve.