They can be immobilized with permanent foundations and skirting.

This is really the foundation of the due on sale clause, not interest rates or profits from the mortgage as most believe. 

The foundation in the back of the house was crumbled and missing huge chunks of concrete.

Load bearing kitchen wall removed, foundation dug out and new steel goes in soon.

Bryan, most larger cities and counties where watershed is a problem will not allow you to change the contour of sites other than for limited structural improvements, like digging the foundation and packing the dirt around the structure for dranage away from the building.

I like to think of my “Business Plan” as the foundation and that each deal is its own unique situation that you have to build off of your foundation!

There were minor foundation issues, and lot's of cosmetics.

The things i would be looking for are the following condition of roof and foundation.

If the foundation is the blame I don't have the money to pay for the repairs, so I was thinking of selling it and hopefully just being able to get out of the house for what I owe, but I would love to remodel it similar to the house that I linked above, when my finances get better.

What you cant see inside usually the worst is a bad furnace or foundational issues in the basement walls.