You may even want to hire a note consultant to advise you.Here are some bare minimums:* Good down payment - at least 10%, preferably 15-20%* Healthy interest rate - at least 8%* If you want to put a balloon feature in, make it 7-10 years out* When you assess the borrower, pull their credit report and keep it with your file* Use a note servicer to establish a verifiable record of the timeliness of the payment history (or keep meticulous records yourself with copies of all checks)I thought this below was a good read, and I basically plagiarized the above from it.

Bare with me - a quick story not about cars but real estate.Ok so I recently bought a car "long distance".

Its been tough the past three weeks our infant was in childrens hospital with a life threatening bout of gastroenteritis and a severe upper respiratory infection along with pink eye and a double ear infection.

I essentially want to be able to sell my purchase for more than I bought it for, but I don't want to tie up so much of money that I am barely getting by after my monthly payment.

Prices barely dropped during the crisis and are already well above that for most locations.

I barely have the two hours, so no way scheduling 1 hour apart.

In fact when she first moved in she barely had to pay anything and is now paying over $250/month out of her pocket.

Unless of course, the work done is the bare minimum to try and flip the property quick.Best advice I can give to someone in this situation is to take such care in the renovation of your property that a discerning would never consider the back property because of the obvious superiority of product provided by your renovation.

I pulled a pink 1930s wall oven out of one place and the owner wanted to toss it.

It barely gets above 70 degrees here and when it does ...