b) Are you charging and receiving additional rent or pet fees because of the animal's presence?

You have to assess which is better for yourself and if you go the fixed fee route, if you are willing to bare the risk if, for whatever reason, the ruling goes against you (i.e. you still have to pay)

b) Are MLS' regional or is there a nation MLS system?

If you go through some of the deal diaries and success stories on BP, you'll find a fair amount that are homeruns out of the park, but an even higher number where people make a whopping $6,000 on a $300,000 investment (just read that one today), barely broke even or, as you might suspect, lost a crapton of money.Flipping houses is hard.  

Account Closed thank you for baring it all with this topic, I'm in a similar situation.

I have seen too many flips where the flipper comes in and does the bare minimum, and calling it bare minimum is being generous.  

Jack B. Are

I know this is rare.. this would not happen in many other markets in the US if any that I currently fund in .. which is 11.Its not as dramatic as what I am doing in Charleston.. were we are buying in what was 100% minority area and once called the hood.. and paying 100 to 150k for tear downs or lots.. and selling new homes at 400 to 700k.... and of course there is a huge social impact and talk from the minority owners saying they are losing their homes and culture to all this redevelopment.. but then again those that own the homes.. 10 years ago you would be selling these dilapidated homes and bare lots for 10 to 30k each now they are all over 100k.. so the owners are getting a nice cash out price.Most of what I buy there tends to be handed down.. there is a ton of Title issues though in those areas... so a lot of what you see can't be bought and it can't be occupied homes are in that bad of shape.. so one by one.. blocks are changing.. and some say for the better some say not.

Even with bare bones fixes (repaint etc.), it easily gets to 2K with HW charges.

I love it when we want a wall taken down, Contractor comes in and makes it seem like a major project, this is load baring wall bla bla bla ,  its a 10-foot double 2 x 12  OR 2x 10 header, and some 2x 4 for jack and King studs so under 100 bux in material and they say 5k, really it takes an hour, again most people have no idea, and most NOT ALL, GC take advantage.Merry Christmas