Basically I do the labor and up keep, help him with cutting and splitting firewood from the land, and cleaning years of trash dumping on it by him; in exchange for ownership of the land in 10 years.

#helpme I am online looking at the assessed value of the property and it is way below what they are asking.

The most basic and logical explanation for something is often correct, but proving it can be a whole other ballgame.

When I meant by borrowing 200k was to buy a fixer upper for cheap (from a whole saler, or off market deal), and use that 200k to basically buy and rehab the house.

It's basically title light and it will give you an idea of lien situation. 

If this is such as major issue that they sent a letter around, and they feel everyone should do it, then the best way to make sure it's done is they make it building wide project.When they do these projects however, they either increase the monthly fees for everyone, or do a one time assessment charge.

Today your competing against silly money basically in the MFR space

Also - what is assessed tax?

If the counter layout just has straight sides (no corners), you can buy 8' wide sections of basic laminate counters for under $100 in stock at a lot of stores and cut them to the length you need.

I signed up for this course to get some basic info on real estate investing some time ago, but subsequently discovered BP and read other people’s review of this course.