Sorry if I sold it right now after all fee's I'd be up about 5 to 7 thousand. but if i waited till next spring I could probably get more.The penalty will be somewhere in the range of 3000$ if I wanted to get out of it aswell.

I'm always willing to spend an extra $1500 in order to get a quick sale, a buyer who never second-guesses his decision during the closing process, and agents who ask us to PLEASE let them know the minute we have more houses on the market -- in fact, it's a no-brainer.Throw in fact that appraisers are always very impressed with the extras we throw in -- and keeping appraisers happy is worth thousands in my book -- and the benefits are even more obvious.So, in my opinion, for any house that will likely go to a first-time homebuyer, a fridge (and everything else that makes a house truly move-in ready) is a must-have...Just my business model...

Say it cost you a thousand dollars a year for twenty years (let's not get so deep in the time value of money) so it cost you 20K for maybe a property that is worth 100K, say you bought it at market value!

I'm not one for spending hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars on gimmicks and programs.

The 60,000 question is what happens when the hedge funds realize that owning thousands of SFR's is really hard and almost impossible to manage..

Debt is a powerful tool but has ruined the lives of many.

Including a budget item of a few thousand specifically for surprises helps.

If you have thousands of folks trying to make this happen there will be a few successes.

I think there is a real possibility of the Hedges being the next group ( after banks) to have their version of a meltdown.We all know how hard it is to manage SFR's and to buy as many as they did in the Atlanta market ( thousands) they just can't make those work the way they envisioned and I think you will see them just start to part with them and this could put downward pressure on values there..

The most important part before dropping thousands of dollars in inspections, appraisal, phase one, etc. on a property is to make sure the numbers are right with income and expenses and that you can come to a fair price for both parties to consumate a deal.