Hey all, Have a problem tenant who caused ~$2000 in damages and some unpaid utilities... let her dog soil the carpet and refused to pay water bill last few months. 

Buyers dry upYOU ARE ONLY AS GOOD AS YOUR BUYERS DATABASE!!!!

I closed on a new house loan several years ago and Suntrust was the third mortgage lender to wind up with the loan by the time I closed.The originating lender was my bank and they knew the builder had failed to due a pretreatment of the soil prior to building the house. the city inspectors didn't require him to do it but we knew it could come up later.

The market really dried up but appears to be improving to higher inventory release levels.

Unfortunately with this new mortgage crisis, we can get the construction financing all day long, but the end loan financing has dried up.

It's the dry cleaners and manufacturers that tend to kill you.Plus if it is all contained in the soil and isn't in the groundwater that can be a big opportunity to get a property for a good price.

and make sure your girlfriend understands that getting into the business, especially buying foreclosed homes, will SUCK you dry!!!

[side note - we saw a house, in nice area, with the backyard falling into a ravine (soil clay) - the house is in a bad situation, as it is a foreclosure and no one has bit on it in over 180 days at 92k - comped at 129k.

The investor has several nicer rentals but has been sucked dry by one of the bigger ones being vacant for an extended period of time.

Dry wells are required to "store" the rain water on your lot from all impervious surfaces for 24 hours, including the driveway!