In today's market there are are better deals to be had with fewer headaches.

Boric acid works well too.The research I've done on bedbugs indicates that DE isn't the best for getting rid of them.

Taxpayer cost per job: $1.5 million.The Los Angeles Department of Transportation created even fewer jobs per dollar, spending $40 million but netting just 9 jobs.

If there's a lot of this around the house, does this indicate that the former owner just didn't take care of the house, or is there a structural problem with roof that could be causing this?

(A book could be written about this aspect, but I'll make it brief I promise) An individual lender will have more scrutiny in any civil case, individuals will need to show that what they did was fair and reasonable, it's assumed that banks conduct business within legal requirements.Processing a loan is CYA for the lender and indicates a degree of fairness and safty for the borrower.

Are there any indicators I can watch for that would suggest, at least, whether the lender would get off the bench and do it in a timely manner?

In the first twelve months after rehab, my model indicates a monthly cash-flow of $2500/month.Then, after twelve months of cash-flow, I plan to sink another $100K into more renovations (which takes 2 more months), and for the next twelve months, my model indicates that I can expect a cash-flow of $6000/month.At this point, I plan to sell the building for $500K.Given that example, I take my monthly cash flows projected by my two models, and augment them based on my purchase/sale/rehab expenses, and run an IRR to get my expected return (in this case, about 25%).If you want to see what this looks like for this example, see the attached spreadsheet...Hope this helps!

It boils down to getting the soviets to spend more money than they could afford on their military, which ultimately resulted in their going bankrupt.Reagan had to increase U.S. military spending to do this, and his plan was to drastically cut military spending once we "won" the cold war...problem is, the subsequent Presidents never quite embraced the second part of that strategy.So, here we are using Reagan's (very effective) strategy against ourselves...Everyone likes to complain that this country has ridiculous debt and is on the verge of insolvency...some here have even indicated that our economic problems are the greatest threat to this nation.Maybe I'm missing something, but if spending is the greatest threat to this nation, wouldn't common sense tell us to focus on reducing what is unarguably the largest ongoing expense this nation faces -- our military?

I received a call back from the rep (this has now happened countless times with many reputable banks/brokers) who indicated that the loan could be done but it would go through another company (damn, mafia connections?

Thank you for your offer of further input if she proceeds with this.Bill, there was nothing that I know to indicate wetlands, so I didn't say it.