Then you are not ADDING value, and whatever money you make was stolen from that old lady.So there is the bottom line.  

Finally when we did get it finished the plumbing was stolen the next night.  

I fully anticipate it will appraise for about 90k over purchase price.It is an REO property and while it has sat empty, someone has stolen all 3 condenser units from the side of the house. 

In my experience, receptacles get vandazlied and stolen.  

This means if your house is open at anytime or unoccupied you will have metal stolen and wires ripped.

I had limited experience but I learned A LOT that summers  Unfortunately during renovations all my tools were stolen.

After inspecting the property, I found the wiring, plumbing, and HVAC had been stolen.  

Yep, no stolen pics hereCan't see your pic obviously, but you can't go wrong with the rugged mountain-man look of either of those two : )    #facialhairjealousy

not to mention the aforemention HVAC... plus the condenser are stolen quite often that's always a shocker.

We went to the no-reserve auction of the attached property to settle an estate figuring it would go into the $80-$90k range but we watched it get stolen for $40,000.