I drive a car that I will drive until it burns down to the ground, a Jeep Grand Cherokee.  

Looking forward to learning more about your grand plans!!

I would hate to lose the property over a few grand.

I ended up making a grand total of $277.30.However small this profit is, it's still a profit and I learned how to work through the foreclosure process in PA.What I would have different:1) Paid less for the note.

Been traveling.I do not feel this is some grand conspiracy. 

Let me show you a pretty reliable way to do this:Start with your 1000, go buy a pickup truck that does not run but has a good tranny, body  ( I say pickup because a LOT of folks that work need trucks...market is decent) Comp your area and find a medium average number of 4 grand for this truck WHEN IT RUNS. get it fixed for say 1-2k now you have up to 3k into it. but it sells for 4000, you now have 2000 to do things with right?

What a grand way to start 2016. 

The markets I heard most about was Memphis and Little Rock (obviously b/c I was invited to present and those are the markets I represent), Columbus, Ohio, Chicago, IL and Indianapolis, Indiana and some guy doing land contracts in Grand Rapids, MI that I could not figure out.  

My great grand father left it to his 8 children in 1926.  

I just looked it up and the past owners (the one that redeemed) gave him the property under a QCD for no monies and at the end of it it says from Grandfather to grand son.