You could make the sale contingent on the two POHs having a title.

. $275,000 with an end sale of $390-420,000 doesn't sound like a break even to me.

Has a taker, rakes in the option fee, the extra rent, and IF the house sells, the difference is sales price.

The obvious answer is flipping.Basically they buy a property needing a lot of work, they put a lot of money into it, then they list it for sale.

The house was also facing sheriff's sale and we had to file some court documents and get it postponed.  

I am on List Source trying to gather my numbers for certain zipcodes in my farm area such as how many SFH, Equity, OO, REO etc and I can not seem to find how to check for " total cash sales in the last 6 months to a year". 

I feel that the little interest I'm making now, will be mitigated when the cycle ends.

@John Knisely  Electric baseboard heating can be expensive when you look at life cycle cost, this includes utility cost. 

Quotes may not include sales tax.. 

They do not need to be capitalized, depreciated through a cost segregation study, and then depreciation recapture taxes paid at sale of the property.