Not exactly a baby step.

All classes feels the cards are stacked against them...some just choose to fold their hand and others choose to shuffle and re-deal.Taxes are not the cause for people staying in the middle class...having unfavorable tax treatment, or any personal or financial challenge, is the effect of people's decisions.  

Hi @Ashli Addison, welcome to BP and the REI world, yes i agree there can definitely be an information overload with educating yourself in REI, but its good that you are now jumping to take the next step and get some forward motion on your business, while you will never stop learning taking the first steps and making real progress is a big accomplishment and one step most new people never take "study from the sidelines" but best of luck with your REI adventures and post up any deals/success/questions you get, we all like to see each other succeed,good luck,jay,

Step children don't want anything to do with the home?

I'm certain this is a good deal but I'm a bit apprehensive because, for 1) its outside of my Houston area Market so overseeing a rehab would be quite difficult 2) With such a large home we would face some financial challenges with doing a complete remodel.

@Nicholas Norris Congratulation on making the first step.

Regulations surrounding this issue are relatively new and vary by state... some states simply list instructions for "cleaning up" the "contaminated" property... the same steps that companies like yours are trained to follow I would assume.

Reading through this forum is one of our initial steps in trying to determine a way of using that money for real estate investing.

My other challenge is that I'm new to my area.

However, I went to the first meeting and the main speaker was an out-of-town guy giving a super high-pressure sales job for some MLM program called "Financial Education Services Protection", which didn't actually have anything to do with real estate, other than he was pitching us to pressure credit challenged prospects into buying this (my opinion) predatory program.