I've had better experience with "fair market" transactions listed by motivated individuals.My advice is to have your agent to set up a search for vacant houses with key words like 'fixer-upper', 'probate', etc.

@Mario CascioWe use a few of the Schlage keyless deadbolts (the ones that do not try to slide the bolt itself) and they stand-up fine to our winters.Self-locking door sets on anything but a storage room are a recipe for unwanted "I locked myself out" calls ... it may be less of a problem on a detached garage, unless they walk out with their arms full, but the house keys still inside.

There is always an expense in setting up utilities.

@Philip Mullinax first if you need to evict someone from a unit you are buying the price needs to be adjusted for that. 

Sounds to me like he's got no chance, there's got to be some precedent set by never billing and collecting, right?

I set the guest's entry code to the last 4 digits of the booking cell phone number. 

While I was in graduate school earning my Master of Fine Art in Acting degree, I did end up buying a duplex like I had set out to do, that I lived in the downstairs and rented out the upstairs to build equity and have someone else help pay the mortgage.

Have you and your husband set specific goals as to what kind of MFR properties you would like to buy?

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I'm considering (really planning) on setting up a series LLC.