Although I would have like to hold on to it a little longer so we could have done the first harvest when the timber got to 70 YO.. big money !! 

Its not a fun issue , but I deal with it constantly.What happened is the  Pink paint below the brown paint is probably an oil base paint and the brown paint is a latex based paint!

Still, $15-20k of added costs in 3-4 years for capital gains harvesting is not bad.

The issue Brian is putting forth is that if there is significant intrinsic value in a deal and it can be harvested by an expert operator, then mining this intrinsic value can make an apparently slim deal into a fantastic deal.

Timber land has very low tax's we had a 700 acre tree farm that had a value of about 4 million and taxs were under 3k a year.. where they get thier money though is in Harvest and Severance tax's two tax's when you log. 

I was skeptical of the pink door on a navy house, but actually love it and buyers loved it too.

I recommend looking at the BP bookstore for books and listening to the podcasts... info is out there, you have to harvest it

If you're willing to consider other areas then you may be able to find something that works on the west side of the city around the pink line tracks in little village or nearby spots which would pretty much be c class areas

They chose us because I spotted their vegetable garden and let them know, as a gardener myself, that I would be comfortable having them come back to harvest their crops if they wanted to.

Look and see what AC model they  haveLabel yours with permanent hot pink spray paintConcrete the unit into the ground -slab 5 inches deep and weld to it.Lock up disconnect box so they get electrocuted when they do the steal look on craigs list for the HVAC guy selling them and call him to come to random addressesAim cameras where the truck parks and don't let them know you can record platesMotion lights that make sound, there's some barking onesFence the yard, put a big dog there when it's vacant, thinking Doberman.Put sign up about dog who bites.Do you really know which neighbor did this?