call listing party to schedule a showing, ask them why they are selling, ask them if they feel it needs repairs, how long it will take them to close, are all parties on the title located and getting along well enough to meet at the closing table, ask them if they have any inspection reports or if the proeprty has a termite bond, get ALL the listing parties contact info.4.

I just started working for a Granite Co. and we sell granite countertops and flooring at $18 a sq ft. installed.

You are approached by a party who offers to lease your house for a term of three years!

The hardest part is often the beginning of almost any endeavor!

People have tried to buy it, but seems like most people don't have ANY CASH for a down payment. 20% at least.I am really interrested in it, and money on my part is not an issue, but at the same time, I don't want to lay out alot of cash, that I could just as easy invest in the S&P 500 as I have done for many years, watch is grow as it has time and again for the last 40 years( ups and downs ).

BUT here's what the GURUs don't tell you.The hard part is influencing the BPO agent to value the property as a distressed 30-60 day value.

I have a friend that installed them in his kitchen and he says that people come in his house and swear that they are real tiles.

I wasted four hours at the closing table trying to fix a weekend hotel room short sale closing with a " multistate trust" the parties and the beneficiaries are coming back tommorrow.... we are having the beneficiary of the botched trust, the trustee and the buyer to comeback to re-execute everything!

Screen your tenants properly, and don't give in to temptation. keep them on a fair, but short, leash, and make sure BOTH parties abide by the agreement.

Maybe the power company has not come out and installed lighting?