Not that I've done too many houses but my last one was out of necessity and I used the 1 inch tiles on the net.

My dad was and still is a tightwad, buying only necessities and savings for a rainy day...never taking risks...well he's 77 now.

The trick of financial independence is to allow you to choose your job which would be your passion and not your necessity.

An appraisal would also be a necessity.

It's being sold out of necessity more then anything.So, am I wrong to think it's crazy for us to just list it as is, if we want to get the most out of it?

I'm a big fan of this down market because some how by the grace of God I mentioned to stay at least par, and everything else is just more interesting.Innovation is born of necessity :) Originally when I wrote the post I was considering the risk vs reward, effort vs. reward btw short sales and reos.

Necessity to liquidate a business upon the death of an owner.d.

Ken, this is probably true with the government sector (including media), but with mainstream America, they mostly believe in the necessity of government (laws to keep order), but too much government from either left or right is bad.

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.

I think it's a necessity if you're going to go after REOs.Steph