Give back the threat to sue them for your interest increase/difference on your transactions due to their unfair credit reporting, if they report it, you could call the bureaus and have it called off, then add that to the lawsuit, hire a credit repair service so you will have a paid invoice transaction. lol, all this for $100.

Based on what you said and being in Sacramento, where I'm guessing houses to flip could need between 300-400k cash and you might be looking at 50-100k of repair costs you should probably go the 50/50 and hire your friend.Have you already figured it out Jeff? 

Since this is a relative who everyone in the family gave up on,  seems like hiring an attorney will be the only option for this situation.

Hi all,I have a 2007 Pro Forma that I need to update with 2015 numbers. The 2007 version is the for the same size development and area as now, a 4/5 story 15 unit multi-family condo bldg. I have most of the updated nu...

We will be doing a remote bid by hiring a proxy bidder to bid on our behalf.

And does a 203k loan require me to hire a licensed general contractor?

the big issues there........ the government is corrupt as hell. especially in the muskegon heights area. my brother has had no end of trouble with these people. also, other areas of muskegon, such as the city, they hire out their inspections process to a place called safebuilt. these people are worse than the government over there. my brother sells a lot of his houses on land contract. these people simply refuse to accept this as a sale and call his houses rentals. they claim this gives them the right to issue him tickets for repairs needed because he is the " current owner of record". they use a portion of the government system that is outdated and has inaccurate records to claim he is the owner. consequently, he winds up in court all the time with new " violations" on these " rental houses" that he has full proof that he sold years ago. as of yet, he has be able to beat them in court just by proving that he no longer owns them, but he is going to court almost every week with them. i believe they hope he will just give up and pay the fines. that is not gonna happen with him......lol. but, just so you are informed, muskegon may appear to be a good place to invest, but you will have serious hurdles to jump over on a regular basis. 

Hi, I am very passionate about real estate and am trying to learn all I can, but I'm sick of learning and not doing! So since my time is so fully used up, I thought I'd volunteer for two hours a week helping an experi...

So, if you hire someone, make sure they are a go getter and don't put off the work.

I just default back to what I do were I can open escrow without a contract and with a phone call.. but that's because of the volume of bizz I do with title company .. and our title plants are digital.. so running a title search is not as big an issue like it is in many east coast states I work in.. were they have to actually hire a title abstractor to physically pull title.. ( old school :))