Especially if this is an FHA loan, there may be some restrictions on sellers paying for the buyer's inspection.

If I stay under the 20% over purchase price, I will avoid the 90 day restriction and have a quick and easy payday.

IOW, self-help is restricted to rather small jobs that can be deducted from one month's rent without withholding the entire amount.The landlord is nonchalant about it all and says it's only an investment propertySounds like a real jerk to me.

The standards are a little tighter and more restrictive now than they were in 2005, but the banks are lending right now and won't stop until consumer demand dries up completely.It may be true that the state of the economy won't improve until after real estate bottoms out but I don't see real estate as the driving force here.

Unless you are restricted to pc for business I simply don't understand why you wouldn't use Mac.

I am located in Georgia where most decent investment properties are in sub-divisons with HOA.How do others find their investment properties that do not have these restrictions or get round them, if at all possible.ThanksJulie

SUBJECT: Property Flipping Prohibition Amendment On June 7, 2006, HUD published a final rule in the Federal Register amending regulations at 24 CFR 203.37a prohibiting property flipping in HUD's single-family mortgage insurance programs by providing additional exceptions to the time restrictions on sales.

Ohio's fee cap on mortgages restricts most lenders from making anything on a loan that small let alone covering standard expenses involved in the purchase.

Tell them you can wait until it goes to sale at the courthouse steps, and buy it then, without the restriction.

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