Contact owner and offer to fix it for free rent - they buy materials.4.

Take material on eHow with a grain of salt.

This should determine what you do on your first visit to wherever you choose to invest.5) If you chose to do everything yourself (caution - VERY DIFFICULT from abroad, particularly in unknown lands), use your time on your first visit to find the best team possible (this begins with internet research, references, setting of appointments, etc).

If you have a good plywood subfloor with no noticeable seams or defects, you have a lot of choices in the $1/sq foot (materials only) in a low end rental.

Hey Marie,I agree with you that disclosures in general are poorly constructed; just to clarify the exact wording of the disclosure for this issue:"Are there now or have there ever been any underground tanks or toxic or hazardous substances such as asbestos, urea- formaldehyde, methane gas, radioactive material, radon, mold, benzene or other environmental contaminants on or in the property?"

They sent out official resignation letters to all homeowners in the email database and also turned in their information/materials (documents, folders, etc.) to the remaining board member soon after.

We tried posting an ad on Craigslist and searched the internet with no success.

As Bill stated to a certain extent depending on the origins of the note will direct a certain portion of the material you request.

Also the recent comps are $240,000 (for a great renovation), $225,000 (for a pretty good rehab....nice kitchen, nice bathrooms, good curb appeal, standard everything else), $190,000 (for average rehab.....basic, cut on finishing materials, etc.).

RE, being in your home town or on any internet site, will have sharks, their mission in life is to eat little fish to survive.