I normally say something like "Im working with a group of investors that would be very interested in this house and they pay me a fee for bringing them properties" "I will not be buying this myself, but the contract allows me to legally show the property to them."

Everyone should bring their ONE best person to the next meeting so we can grow it and all prosper together in this super awesome market right now.

New carpet and new paint will remove the smell and likely bring you a better value.

Fond memories of the aroma put off by the Mead paper plant.....Study up here on the site, reach out and engage the community.

If you are building a new duplex in an older area and bringing up values, property owners would be hard pressed to get a court to agree that you caused them "harm" Are there other duplexes in the area?

If it is a deal that I plan on pursuing, I will bring in multiple general contractors to give me quotes on the work.

I really hope to bring a kind of old school approach of sitting down face to face with owners, with no intermediaries or buffers.

The amount to bring the loan current is about 15K.

What a difference a few years of total unrelenting focus and comittment can bring!

Play it by ear, some old pharts are hard nosed, but if this seller is offering assistance after the deal, he loves his property and hates to sell the memories.