-  We were finding that, at least in Phoenix, the fix and flips were getting tougher to exit with a decent profit margin.What are the expectations that you have, think you have or may have heard in regards to the amount or level of return one can expect? 

Sports are tougher, but I can get enough college basketball through local programming that I don't care too much.

Dekalb county has a tougher crew of inspectors than much of atlanta (Fulton side)In general, they should not have issued you the certificate of occupancy if you didn't have that final building inspection.Patrick

That's gotta be one of the tougher jobs in the world, so nice work!

@Aaron Montague I thought Brookline was a little tougher?

In my research, I also noticed that the property taxes in the city are very high as well, which can make the buy and hold strategy much tougher to get the spreads needed to make the deals work.

You can certainly try to talk them down and give you cash to buy it from them.That is always a tougher sell, especially if the number they want is at or below retail.

definitly not an expert in this area but it sounds like you have some equity in this property, so before you get foreclosed on why not just sell make a little money, start over with another property, you say you have 30 days left get it on the market sell quickly or you get forclosed on lose the property hurt your credit, and in a tougher situation then you currently are.

That can be a tougher sell.

If they allow the trash to move in and run things down then the neighborhood will go down.Many surrounding cities have 'tougher' police to say it the nicest way.