** I am also looking for the bets way to approach the appraiser so he or she realizes how much work was done on this home.

I think your best bet would be to buy a place in N.

That is a real shame, I bet that was a pretty cool rental.I am focusing on buying properties in my self directed ROTH IRA, that way I don't have to pay tax on the income (ever) or capital gains tax if I sell one day.

Your best bet is to meet some local wholesalers and see if you can help them in some way by door knocking or driving for them and learn from them.

I played sports my entire life mostly football I played for 7 years, and now I play pick up basketball more then anything.

Your best bet if you have other properties is to get a HELOC or refi to pull out the equity and use that for the downpayment.Good luck!

I'd be willing to bet that the verbiage of what constitutes a closet might even say something along the lines of "being built of similar materials to the remaining structure" (i.e. drywall, wood studs, etc).

Local and regional banks are your best bet for a project like this.

Nagle I actually never thought of investing in Northern Iowa, and I bet it is beautiful!

You're obviously still close to downtown too but these days I don't spend much time down there, hopefully that'll change if/when sports come back.