One in the 24x24 kitchen & larger one in the Living room with ceiling venting to a ground floor master & en-suite.Our tenants LOVE the pellet stoves & rarely use the steam heat.Yet after 8 years I just had the following repairs (parts from http://www.stove-parts-unlimited.com)Convection Blower $185.00, Feed Motor & Spring Assemblys $385.00, ThermoCouple $78.00, ThermoCouple $cover 24.00....Total $672.00

Since you'll be investing out-of-state be sure to do your due diligence or find some boots on the ground to help. 

The point about missing a credit card payment as grounds for loan denial is not really that important.

Find common ground & renegotiate.Don't get "stuck in the box" of "no more than 7 yr financing" or 6%-7% interest.

Basically it will be run into the ground before somebody will take it on at 2c on the Dollar.Price target $7-$9 before a company sale.

The house must be fairly big/nice to have an in ground pool.

The fixing and flipping does sound like a reasonable middle ground for the time being.

And that is Gary's stomping grounds so old friends keep me up to date on good guys and bad guys there.His course is geared for California but I know others that found it useful in other states.

To get 220V, two adjacent breakers in the panel are replaced with the "tandem" breaker used for 220V; off of that new breaker, an electrician will have the 2 "hot" legs (usually colored black and red in the wiring), and the neutral (colored white) and ground (colored green or just bare copper) will be connected to the appropriate bus bars in the panel.

Can I use the stolen AC unit as grounds to back out of the contract?