And state that you'd obviously do a lot of the leg work, you'd just need to be shown what to do.6.

All less inflammatory or discriminatory.There also isn't anything here about prior rental references, that is key.Since you live in one o the units that gives you a huge leg up on not needing to defend your choice as much.

So I'm wondering what strategy you guys have found effective buying a fixer upper from a major bank.

My landscaper is pretty good chopping down trees and not charging me an arm and a leg, but this one was right under the power lines and so I needed a tree service company take care of it.

Having upper and lower units and renting a garage separately works for me.

Instead of the 2" upper strip of mosaic he's got 6" luckily the mastic wasn't dry and I could remove them.

I'm looking at a duplex near where I live, the price is 163k and has a lower and upper unit.

North Central Phoenix has a few but they are usually in the upper 2

I'm thinking that is a leg-work issue for me to get started on.  

When a fixer upper is listed on the MLS, even with minimal profit margin, multiple offers are received, often times above list price.