Originally posted by "Ohio Realtor":Jon a couple of months ago I ran into a short in a 180K neighborhood. 2 plasm televisions, surround sound in the main area, Jag in the garage, no carpet on the floor in the livingroom just OSB.Some peoples priorities are just out of line.HAHA, This sounds very similar to many situations in my area.

You will have to provide findings, meaning similar properties that are built in the neighborhood, which is impossible sometimes because if the city has allowed something in that nature they’d have amended the code.

Educate and assist another who is in a similar position as I am at the moment.I look forward to interacting and networking with whomever is open to making money.

If you buy condos and other similar properties where there is centralize maintenance for common areas that can be a benefit.Apartment buildings with onsite property management is another way to go.You also might need to learn a new legal process.

He has some pretty good suggestions on how to make the landlording process easier.Your strategy sounds similar to mine, a couple other good books that were refered to me here in these forums are "Weekend Millionaire" by Mike Sumey (sp) and "Building Wealth one house at a time" by John Schaub.

Promoting a real estate tool is similar to publishing real estate related articles.

Buying with wraps, AITD structures and assumable loans is many ways similar to buying subject-to and other ways to take over the present payments.There are new things but the new stuff looks a lot like the old stuff.Anyone who bought and held from the 1980's did not have to be the brightest person in the world.

I know one of my good friends had a similar situation and through small claims court it took him some time to recevie the money he lost.

New development is rapidly approaching from Downtown, while other nearby neighborhoods with similar 1920-1930 homes are being lovingly restored.

A guy I know who does similar deals as me used Guidant, and was happy with them.Jon