Same with the taxes, and PMI.I write off half of the water bill.I put about 5 grand into the house.

Long story short the 3 main NEEDS in life are : Food, Water, and Shelter.

We may have dropped more than what I had thought we would, but I am not surprised from the lack of responsibility to the mortgage and banking industries.

Only recently, formally good markets, Austin, Charlotte have started dropping in price.

Jeff by all means jump in the water, it's fine :mrgreen: just make sure you have your floaties on1st things 1st is if your new to the short sale arena I would maybe think about hiring a buyers agent to protect your enthusiasm.

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It started off near $60,000 and has steadily dropped.

They have a process for dropping the price.

If you end up living on-base, then you'd have to drop around 20% into an investment property, but if you did the REFI, you should have plenty to play with under the right circumstances.

So along with a full remodel of everything, a new septic / or possibly tie into the main city sewer, and new water lines / or new wells dug.