If water/sewer is a potential lien like it used to be in my area you want to be careful and monitor it, or have it in your name.Check with each utility in your area and ask this question.

I was monitoring mls 24/7 for something to show up close to what I'm looking for.

Hot water heat is pretty amenable to bill back systems, since you can just monitor when they have their valve open and charge them a fraction based on that time.

A good GC is worth his weight in gold and should be paid a premium price.Joe Gore

Maybe you ought to read their responses again, if you are still looking for your "out" clauses.Most homeowners are going to be suspicious (and are entirely right to be suspicious) of a contract that is weighted unfairly toward you.

However what I meant to convey was that obtaining a market value doesn't hold much weight when I'm determining my purchase price.

They are worth their weight in GOLD.

I'm not there to monitor this process.

Just a heads up for the love of flips once a month I go to the court house steps and buy up 5-6 homes for the back taxes as they come up on the auction block useally pick up a 50k-75k home for about 3-8k with a rehab job ahead of us but put 20k into it and grab 15-30k and hope to flip within 30 days there were some big loosers but they dont out weight the winners. if anyone wants a rehab check list excel form that is just great I will gladly give it free to any who wants it or someone tell me where i can post it for all to have it great tool.

Hey, It's stories like these that make continuing to conduct business with character & integrity well worth its weight.