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Lucas Pfaff
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FREE Property - What's the WORST that could happen?

Lucas Pfaff
  • Realtor/Investor
  • Philadelphia, PA
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I have been offered a free property ($1) in a very rough part of Philadelphia. The property is a boarded up shell. I'm trying to figure out what risks I run if I purchase this and sit on it for the foreseeable future.

Aside from yearly RE taxes and HI there shouldn't be any costs I believe?

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Rick H.#4 Marketing Your Property Contributor
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Rick H.#4 Marketing Your Property Contributor
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  • Greater LA/Orange County area, CA
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@Lucas Pfaff Here's a scenario:

You record your deed and the local sheriff meets you at the property and serves you as defendant in a toxic waste super site lawsuit. As you duck into the house, you startle a squatter who shoots you in the head. You don't die but are permanently paralyzed. 

You did ask what's the worst that can happen. Care to rephrase your question?

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