It went from Country Wide to B of A to some off brand lender now.

Usually the bid and ask for a given not is too wide to contemplate getting out.

A closing we had recently got a bit chippy and the title company the seller selected failed to tell us we needed to wire funds in advance for them to be considered "good funds."

They promised to promote widely, even worldwide, prior to the auction.

Go to HudHomeStore.com, select your state and county, also use the "Buyer Type" as Investor, and status "Accepting Bids".There is one property in Crystal Lake that may be of interest to you.You need a Real Estate Agent to put in the bid for you to this site.I would start out with 65% of the list price and inch your way up every week but keep submitting the bid everyday (if you want this property).Of course you need to go see it and possibly get it appraised and inspected.$1000 Earnest money within 48 hours as well (if they accept your bid)

Abuilding is considered substantially rehabilitated if your qualifiedrehabilitation expenditures during a self-selected 24-monthperiod that ends with or within your tax year are more than thegreater of $5,000 or your adjusted basis in the building and itsstructural components.

Once I had bought a property and selected a closing attorney, he told me that he would not put any RE agent into his closing documents to be paid commission.

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Construction/remodel/maintenance is my husbands day job, though, so that is his knowledge base.The old single wides are more of a problem than doubles and the newer models that are made more like a regular house.

Where you live there is sprawl we have no sprawl.. we have a state probably 2 to 3 times the size of GA.. with almost 4 million people  2.5 million live in one 30 X 90 square mile valley ( Willamette Valley) the rest of the state is wide open..