Very trusting you Canadians are.It is clearly not normal wear and tear and no break in was reported or claimed by tenant = tenant charge.Wade:No deposits of any nature is a Québec thing.  

I'm excited to be here.You are right, Seal Beach and Rossmoor are both great communities with desirable locations as they are conveniently located to shopping, major freeways, great schools and of course, the beautiful Pacific Ocean.

Purchase Price: $160,251Renovations: $61,000SOLD $315,000 IN 4 DAYS

Welcome to the area - it is a beautiful place to live and a great place to get involved in real estate.

I chalk that up to someone working their natural market (friends, family, neighborhood) and seeing what they can get out of it.But when I post a CL add for bird dogs I usually get a lot of "applications" from people who really don't follow directions and wonder why they don't get their ~$1,000 finders fee.

@Meghan McCallumYou can structure it anyway you want really, that's the beauty of working direct with private individuals and their money. 

The cost per sq. ft. may be high, but that's irrelevant to you, other than the nature of hte situation in that you'll have to come up with more dollars.

Beautiful!!

I also had a $15k HELOC from the old house, and this is the beauty in the value of home ownership that I would argue with anyone who says buying a home for personal residence is not a good investment.The Homepath house needed almost no work because Homepath often comes in and does a full cosmetic rehab on some of their houses (there is an icon in the listing that indicates it was done this way.)  

There was also a man in Texas that purchased a dam that surrounded his property,  (you have probably seen it being in your line of work), I thought that was interesting, but of course not very practical on a routine basis, but I wondered if something of that nature could be applied in a similar fashion to hurricane shutters.... i.e. you install hurricane shutters and your premium goes way down and they essentially pay for themselves in a couple of years.