It's such a cheap, easy fix for a potentially expensive problem! 

Higher rates call for lower pricing, i am buying cheap right now.

The house being on the market not selling after a while is hurting you.Fourth, hope you learned the lesson of not trying to be cheap but hiring the right contractors even if at first, they seem more expensive.

Cheap markets are cheap because the risk is perceived high or the long term return (I.e. appreciation) is perceived to be low.  

The state is very landlord friendly and taxes are cheap. 

You may not want a super cheap house in a bad "crack" / crime hood.

One important lesson I would suggest is that just because something is cheap does NOT necessarily mean that it is a good investment, and the opposite is also true.

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It's up to that guy to negotiate with his realtor the best deal, or use a cheap title company, or the biggest one is financing. even if you did not plan to wholesale it and you just needed to run numbers to see what your personal actual profit would be, you would still end up getting to a point where you have to decide what an appropriate amount of profit would be so that you can make your offer.

Glass shower doors aren't necessarily "cheap" but can also update a bathroom.