Houses with boarded up windows and doors, generally that have unique paint jobs that don't really blend with the original house color.

Lately I have seen a number of posts from what I consider some of our most respected posters on the board using standard procedures to calculate returns.

That being said Bill, we should also add that in many states the legal and management functions required of LLC (shareholder meetings, board approval, corpoate resolutions, etc.) are much less servere than of corporations.

I am looking at doing my first s/s flip, and was planning on hiring a Florida based company (someone we all know here on the boards), to negotiate with the lenders, how can I protect myself, and the listing agent?

I'm grabbing address of homes that fit the abandoned/motivated seller stereotype- overgrown grass, mail piles, boarded windows, Eviction/Forclosure/Winterization Stickers (usually visible from street on Door or front window) Lock boxes on Door handles Good luck!

I have found that it is somewhat rare to have an effective board- which makes having units that are under an HOA troublesome.

On all of your properties you should get the insurance-just chalk it up as the cost of doing business.

You've been helpful on ins and outs of board.

It would be considered an *awful* deal by anyone on this board but we put down 20% and have managed to keep it rented.

With thousands of loans in each of these pools the geographical footprint ranges across the board and includes judicial and non-judicial states.