These properties were bought on a contract with the seller.As time went on financing started drying up and rates started to rise.

The best thing you can do is find someone who is doing well at Wholesaling, follow them, be an intern, learn from them, stuff their envelopes, get their dry cleaning, do whatever you need to do to learn and be patient.

After one removes the drywall and air dries the wood frame, what substance do you spray on wood frame, floors, etc. to prevent mold and kill other nasty things?

It could be dry and sunny for the 3 months you own the property and a month after you sell it to a new homeowner it could flood the basement due to heavy rains.

Off MLS hasn't dried up yet but the more the news picks up real estate has rebounded the less motivated sellers will be.

I have a friend who repainted her cabinets using a white base coat, then used a "dry brush" technique with brown paint over the white giving her cabinets a very attractive faux wood finish.

Two easy moves that can improve the look without too much expense and without changing too much of the fixed design elements.If you go with the idea of adding a mantle and dry-walling above it to the ceiling, you can keep the brick fireplace surround below the mantel and the brick hearth; it will go with the black fireplace insert that you already plan to keep.

Put some--a little--into lids such as yogurt lids, sour cream lids, etc, along with some dry sugar of cocoa powder and slide them under the stove, fridge, back of cupboards, etc, where kids and pets can't get to them.Shouldn't take long before they're gone.

Perhaps it would be possible to embed dried ferns and flowers inside them.

lol, you are correct though, the tape falls off leaving dried residue that doesnt come off.