My bedroom ceiling has been repaired, and there is now a hawk and trowel finish on it.

I like the idea of an lease option, but I'm concerned about putting a lot of money into repairs and trusting the owner to not get forclosed if he owes on the property.

Most can be done by a handyman.Those include simple items to a few warranted items, and more costly, such as some cabinet repair, some exterior rear door jamb/framing repair, and including my not warranted thermal windows with condensation.

If selling, you need to pay no more than about $98K, less repairs.

Very hard to have positive cash flow in CA on a sfr, unless you buy it with large down payments.As far as the repairs/maintenance factors mentioned by Ovetta, I disagree with the negative perception.

The house has a mortgage of 50,000 (3 bed room , 1 and a half bathroom)Houses in that neighborhood are worth about 75,000 The house has about a ballpark of 20k in repair.

So you need to sell the property to another investor preferably @ 70% or below ARV (After Repair Value). 8.

I don't know how the credit repair companies work for short cuts.

Hard Money Lender will lend up to 70% Repaired Value so if you buy it for 40-50% you can use extra funds for the rehab costs.

I am fairly new but what i have so far in my learning is that u can pretty much find comps anywhere but that doesn't mean there actuate, and as far as estimating in some book and programs they tell u to pick a number, for example what i have learned is that depending apon the shape of the house going from ugly to real ugly to junk 10,000, 20,000, to 25000 and also depending apon the size needing to be in the area of 1000 to 2000 square feet then to take these unreliable number in to this formula ARVx70%-repairs = MAO and back off slightly for profit now like i said i am new so ,but i do know this is complelely dumb for me use do gurus bring your answers and add your knowledge or subtract from this and tell us newbies how to correctly run the numbers and come up with offer that guarantees u money even if u have to flip the deal over to and end user of course that is if it sales lol...