If you are going to advertise on BP, you have to pay for the privilege.And a thinly veiled "wondering if you would be interested in buying my book" post isn't going to cut it.

You have to be OK not getting that specific house, but for sure cuts the crap of the counter counter counter madness.

Make some small sacrifices to kill your credit card debt and you will be so happy you did after you are cutting up cards and living without all this debt lingering over head.

The buyer of a 45 year old 3/1 around here isnt going to care what the shingles and gutters look like as long as they dont stand out, so you can cut some corners on that stuff.

In order to be nicer I suggest:- show property extremely clean, yard grass cut well, bushes/trees trimmed ($400)- good paint job ($1000)- scratch and dent stainless steel appliances (they are a wow factor) ($600)- living area no carpet...

If you go the route of un-licensed contractors and short-cuts, and do a lot of rehab, then the inspectors will find out about you in a bad way.

Cutting out one more link out of the game of telephone was a very good thing.

They are respectful and will pay very well when bringing a property to them and not cut you out.

Maybe you're making 25K on the deal, it's the last 5K that's the concern.Anyway you cut it, you're 5K over.

For that type of information, this process would be valuable since data sets can be so large and you want to cut down into assets that matter rather quickly.