Here are the details:2800sqft house4 bed, 2.5 bath3 acre wooded lotAsking price – 200kEstimated rehab costs – 100kCounty assessment a few weeks ago – 195k for land, 148k for buildingI currently have a private lender who is willing to invest 125k likely with a 10% return, though also discussing equity split.

What will probably happen if you cloud the current owner's title is that they will have to petition the court, naming (suing) everyone in sight, including the estate as lender, in order to get you to remove it.

You appear to live in my neck of the woods - Orange County, CA!

You appear to live in my neck of the woods - Orange County, CA!

We haven't upgraded hardly anything except solid wood window coverings, whole-home alarm system, lights in the closets and a new kitchen sink (big whoop) but we have a very expensive hot tub in the back yard and the location of our home in relation to the rest of the neighborhood is what attracted me to the home in the first place (corner lot, backed up to a wash, sunset in the backyard, sunrise in the front, no house facing our front door).

I am from your neck of the woods - Memphis, NY which is out near Baldwinsville.

Guess they'd have time to paint but not mow the yard LOL.So I just don't want to seem to "mean landlord" but at the same time want to have some standards.I guess I would consider it in the master bedroom, which has a wood laminate floor, and I considered repainting anyway as the color is a very pale off-white but w/a slight purple undertone.

PLANTING AGAINST POLLUTIONDriving around Detroit's emptier areas, blocks with one house or a few homes left are a common sight.

Looks like you're in my neck of the woods (OC).I agree that there are many great deals in the mid-west.

If I'm wrong then step out of the "CALIFORNIA" woods, Mr.