Most buy and holders I have met are doing deals in the Shirley/Mastic area.

I just want to get in the dad gum game!

With homes that qualify for normal loans, cash offers are stronger than buyers with loan contingencies as long as there's not a bunch of other contingencies in the offer gumming it up, anyway  -- so you can sometimes beat out other offers, even higher offers, that require loan approval, but many sellers would consider a solid offer with a loan pre-approval over a much lower cash offer, so the pricing benefit of all cash is reduced in homes that readily qualify for loans.        

I had some black mastic on my concrete from some old floor tiles.

They used the premixed mastic but the 300lb guy (who left his cell phone on the window sill) couldn't believe the mastic had not set in 3 hrs so he could walk on it.

I held the relinquished property for 7 years and gum it up at the end.

:crazed: I know it seems crazy to you now, but if you stick with it there will be a day when buying a house is like buying a pack of gum at the convenient store.

That house could have it in stucco, window putty, drywall joint compound, ceiling texture, sheet vinyl flooring, vinyl floor tile, flooring and other mastics, HVAC ducts, and other things - most major surfaces.

(That and 25 cents get you a gum ball)· Current property market value is 200,000 +/-· Current mortgage balance (280k, and 30k) 80 / 20· With both units rented I pay 500$ a month +/- out of my pocketQuestions1.

Painting in too hot will gum up and dry darker.