we just bought a house to brrr which has a nice fireplace . we are considering closing it up to keep the future tenant from burning the house down .

@Trena Harbuck, it's not just a matter of liens expiring, you have to give the one-year lienholder notice to burn off their redemption rights in Alabama.

It sounds like they've been burned before. 

If your betting on the race, take the tortoise, the hare burns out, has great burst but takes many breaks and loses the race.  

We often burn through our deductibles, even with having a relatively very healthy family . . .

If I had 45K sitting a burning a hole in my pocket I would do something like the following base on my future goals: Thank you!

A good Design-Build Contractor will provide 3-D designing services at a nominal cost that saves, in the long run, substantial costs, time and heart burns associated with undesirable results.  

and by low balling like this they should make far more than just a listing fee.I am sure there is big VC money behind this and they are probably burning through their marketing dollars. 

Read Deal 1Develop a learning pathJoin a local REI group, posts, blogs, books, seminars, paid mentorship’s ( not me, I’m burning some brush on a Subdivision we are doing, killing time right now), etc.     

Addressing the problems is like trying to put out small individual fires in a forest that is burning.