No Alex sadly we disposed of everything in 2011.But North Adelaide was my stomping grounds during the '70's as I resided @ Lincoln College during my years @ Adelaide Uni.

Meanwhile the back-ground noise in the call center drowned out the conversation so much that I could not hear the person I was speaking with and could barely hear my own thoughts.

Building from ground up in a lot of ways is more organized and predictable than a big RENO where you don't know whats behind that 80 year old wall or what the last owner did to the plumbing and electrical.

Something I was interested in when I first started investing in tax liens but I could not gain any ground for various reasons.

Welcome to the site @Andrew Davis, thanks for taking the time to introduce yourself.The experience remodeling and being around real estate, coupled with your accounting background, puts you in a great position to hit the ground running!

Learn from the ground up and when they see your work ethic and anything to win attitude they might eventually partner with you on one or give one to you to learn on.

We have so much snow on the ground here in Michigan I wonder if anybody will see them.

@Marylyn Brennan Investing out of state may work for what you are doing, but be very careful, I know we always say that, but even with the advent of Google Maps, you still don't get the benefit of a "boots on the ground" person who can take pictures of the neighborhood or condition of the house, as it sits today.I live in Jacksonville and there are some great deals, I know of some properties that are available to investors at 50 cents on the dollar from the big funds, multi-family too.

They seem like great people, and we appreciate their doing the labor to make the house "theirs", and we gratefully intend for them to have much lower rent for the foreseeable future, but we just want to be sure that the t's are crossed and the i's are dotted before we let them actually move in to what should be a "legally habitable" house.Thanks for any replies, and fyi we are in California.

They will need to have economies to scale and boots on the ground.