Then use the HELOC, you may need to take it off the market awhile but your banker may go ahead and make one.A loan from life insurance is nothing more than borrowing the cash value and benefits, from a mutual company additional paid up insurance, from a stock company any stock value accrued, if any.

If anyone is still debating these I'll go ahead vouch for Kaaren.

They don't care who the buyer's agent is...and the listing agent never knows ahead of time as to what they'll take.I do agree, however, that it's better to lock up the deal at the point to which the numbers work instead of risk loosing the deal by chasing the ice on the cake.

MitchI would go ahead with the stairs now before you put the deck on.

You have a million opportunities ahead of you that you don't even know exist.

Dan, your tenant was being responsible by sending you the three postdated checks ahead of time.

:) On this property I do have a partner but we had already discussed ahead of time, no painting, no smokers, no pets.

I would use the cash buyer's advantage to purchase the property ahead of the challenged financed buyers in this price range. 

We felt that the rising market justified the improvements, so we plowed ahead.

Just a heads up about bedbug contractors.