@Mark JonesHey Mark, with your current situation, I would strongly advise that you build a healthy cash pool before moving on to your next property purchase.

Getting it cleaned up (250) and getting the furnace serviced (200), but other than that this was a no money down deal.These deals do exist!!

For example: are you really going to only clean your home once a month?

Dana,Thanks for the breakdown, very clean and precise.  

If you deal with clean hands you don't need all this "investor friendly" crap. 

I will clean with TSP and Killz but this place may be beyond the point of no return.

Most the windows were replace, both bathrooms redone, kitchen cleaned up, plumbing and gas service taken care of, garage redone, front door replaced, and ect.

Freddie Mac has eliminated the short sale waiting period and the manual underwriting requirement, provided your credit is otherwise clean and we get an "LP Accept" from the automated underwriting engine.

The owner of the house has an IRS lien on the property of about 90+ thousand dollars and she is fighting it with them through an attorney to see if they either lessen it somehow or they wipe it clean (she says the lien applies to her father who is deceased and not to her).

Repairs: Cleaning lady- $300Rebuild and rescreen the back porch- $650Its been about 6 months and that house is doing great.