Turned out that a few joists had some pretty major scarring, I had to "sister" onto them, everything else was "cosmetic" although the smoke penetration into the sheetrock and slab needed some heavy duty sealing to eliminate all the odor.The second one was a fire that the seller wanted about the price of the land it was sitting on.

Without knowing the area, tenant base and other demographics it can be somewhat of a shot in the dark, (real estate is definitely local).

It's warm & cool at the same time and bright & dark at the same time.

Do you drink, smoke, eat out, buy rims for your car, have cable, pay interest on credit cards, drink soda, play lotto, take toll roads, gym membership, have a car loan, etc?

I do periodic maintenance - like checking/replacing A/C filters, smoke detector batteries and any other routine maintenance.

No one is so brilliant to invent ways to get money from someone with providing adequate security for them and convince a judge that it was the right thing to do.Creative Financing does not mean doing something that is so uncommon and off the wall or just so plain complicated that a reasonable person could not follow what is going on, it should be prudent, in line with similar business dealings for the type of transaction involved and be reasonable, not just something someone smoking loco weed would do under the influence!

The timestamp on the certified letter should be the smoking gun, but our attorney seems to think notice getting filed at the wrong address should be sufficient for us to undo things.

., replacing a beeping smoke detector, fixing a broken window lock, etc.) that have come up I have generally done within a day of being informed.

My friend's unit only suffered smoke & water damage but that maxed out the insurance coverage.

Anything else is smoke & mirrors.I have done deals with none of my money in the deal.