I would also add, it's possible you could end up repainting with Kilz which will "seal in" the cause of the smell functionally eliminating it. 

Literally everything to learn about real estate, deal-wise, all comes down to simple addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

A lot of people give up at that stage but if you track down the owners, you may be the first person to approach them because it takes additional work.

I've seen folks purchase properties, that have tenants signed on for a year or so, but their immediate expectation was to evict/break a signed lease of one unit, so they could live in one, while the other offsets and provides the additional cash flow one would expect.

Wondering if anyone has used these sites to acquire a property, and, if so, how the experience was.  

@Aaron Gordy A couple of quick reminders about how things are different out here: 1) We have earthquakes, everything has to be engineered to withstand seismic forces in additional to the slide issue.

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Hopefully you get a response and set up a sting with the police.In addition, so long as the occupants (who I hope are victims and not the perpetrators) are not up on all their RE info, you can tell them that they were duped and as sad as it is, they needed to perform their due diligence and confirm that the PM or the phony owner who scammed them were on title or not.

You have to live at the property for an undefined period of time, this is ideal for small multi-family as you can acquire the whole building with no cash down, live there for a while and still rent out the other units.

Your last two years are averaged to give you the 24 month avg net rental income that you can use as additional income on your application.Hopefully that makes sense.