My favorite is when you go into an old house, reach down behind a toilet, turn the valve off, and then find yourself running out onto the street to turn the water off at the main because the valve came apart in your hand.

This property is across the street and a few doors down from me.

So we have a million total.The plan was to buy 2 4plexes, but I would like to go bigger and just get one building.My question is this- how do you get out of the "30% down" world and into this "financing is easy for bigger buildings" world.I'm part owner in a drug/alcohol rehab business and we need to get as many doors as we can.

Should I just have her call and say "hi im calling about the property at 123 main street and was wondering if you have any plans with it yet, we have helped many people deal with unwanted properties ... etc etc etc" PLEASE AND THANK YOU :) 

It's like walking down the street and finding $50 on the ground each month.Now if they need a lump sum of cash, then let the down payment equal the cash they need and do a joint venture with someone with cash to either loan you the money (remember that 40-year interest-only loan) so you can give it to the seller and the JV partner gets a 2nd lien position, or they can take an equity position and get a portion of the monthly profits. 

You can drive down any given street and see homes boarded up and abandon.

In Cincinnati, if a street permit is needed because there is less then a ten foot wide by twenty-foot long area to put the dumpster it takes about 48-72 hours to get the dumpster delivered.

We built a house in 2008 my husband and I are not contractors but my husband gathered all the man power we needed, he would go to construction sites and speak to the workers to see if they wanted to do a side job that's how we were able to get all the people we needed, we also did a lot of the work ourselves like sheet rock painting and HVAC the biggest challenge was not the fact that we had never done anything like this before or that we built in a bad area and people would steel material to buy drugs, which forced us to buy a fifth wheel trailer park it on the lot and live in it, it was the money and time we did everything cash, my husband was working a full time job 5:30am to 6 or 7 pm (he is an AC tech, and here in AZ the heat is brutal ) and doing AC side jobs after work he would get back around 10 or 11pm than he would pick up the hammer and work on this house we were building, and go to bed around 2 or 3 am sleep for a couple of hours and continue the same rutine.

The unit is located on Arlington and union street about two blocks from the light rail.

The house is in Castle Rouge, Hazelton Street, she said it is a desirable neighborhood.