here's the update:purchased the house at the end of August for 63 and started working on it.replaced:10 windows, gutters, garage door, 6 basement windows, interior and exterior doors, carpet, kitchen, bath had to be gutted, basement sink, kitchen flooring (vinyl), new plumbingspent around $16.5 to fix it up. the house looks gorgeous, but i am having trouble renting it. i have been showing it since the start of November, had a few applications, but no tenants yet.

I did not get that good of a picture of this, but some guy added plumbing, an interior door tied up with rope to create an exterior bathroom.

If a lot of listings in your area are staged then you definitely want to be in that category as opposed to not.

The buyer's payoff for doing nothing is also greater than their payoff for overpaying for the property, so the Nash Equilibrium is that everyone does nothing.BUT... at what point might the HOA come down off their high horse and agree to take something between $1 and $16,999.99 as opposed to taking the tack of $17,000 or pound sand?

I have a good paying job and my parents keep bugging me about going off to get my masters and stepping up the career ladder as opposed to dealing with the "headache" of managing flips and landlording.

I've asked an HOA here in Southern Cal for an electronic copy of their reserve study, since we are thinking about putting an offer in on a condo (the exterior railings of the complex have extensive wood rot and termite damage).

and could I use a notary in my home country as opposed to NY?

The exterior building is well cared for, though there is parking potential that hasn't been exploited.The area is mixed SFH and multis.

If we believe it's a real alarm (as opposed to an agent who ignored the "ALARM!"

As opposed to the satisfaction of making pretty houses available to uninformed buyers?