Many years ago when I was house hunting in Sugarland, TX, the agent showing us around could drive by any house in the neighborhood and describe the interior and give a value.

With these kinds of buildings they could have become a scandanavia-like international banking center for the middle east.

But then I got to chapter 4 in my book, Every Landlord's Tax Deduction Guide (great book by the way), and read the crap about too many repairs in a short time can constitue a general plan of imporvment, therby classifying your repairs as improvements.Besides the foundation, I need to make other "repairs" such as, re-glazing the bathtub, re-finishing the wood floors, and completely repainting the interior.

It is all political BS and it happened in international water.

With the exception of 2 rooms that act as a "break room", this is an international professional business/investing forum.

I may have a good advantage and the bank may go with the short sale a very low price since the windows are all cracked or boarded up in different areas and the the interior ceiling is about to fall off.

They aren't for everyone,especially if you have uninformed friends and family who immediately think double wide ;) Here's an album with a ton of interior shots, I love talking modular.

Bryan and others I can help you understand this more.When I worked on the residential side I completed thousands of BPO's over the years.BPO's are completed for many different reasons such as bank bulk sale of regular,non-performing,or a pooled mixture of loans,mortgage insurance drops,insurance damage claim,refinances,short sales,etc.A BPO can be an exterior bpo whereby a broker or agent is asked to take 1 pic of mailbox,1 of street,and 1 of the subject and give usually 3 actives and 3 solds with pics and occasionally the comps are without pics.This report usually pays only 30.00 to 65.00 depending on how fast the BPO mill wants it turned in.Usual turn around times are 3 days and rushes are in 24 to 48 hours.An interior BPO is where you do everything listed above but also go inside of the property at take at least 8 interior pictures including any damage noted.An interior usually pays from 60 to 105 per order.The reason BPO reports take so long is say I get a bpo interior order for 50.00.The turn around time is 3 days.If everything goes perfect I turn the order in to the BPO mill who then puts through a quality control review.

I've been looking around the web for private investors and international private lenders but not getting anywhere, probably because i have no money down myself and as well as the purchase price there's the commission,legal fees,transfer tax,agency fees, stamp duty and working capital needed (possibly another 900,000 making the total funding required 4.600,000).

If you have a crappy run down exterior, what does the interior look like.