Well let's think about this:(all cost numbers)Five sheets of (let's say) T-111 and one-to-grow-on = $210.Six sheets of something nice = $1000.16 labor hours = $400. to $800.Misc. materials = $50.So quoted price excluding paint: $1200. to $3000.Painting an 1100 foot house properly = at least $2000.I would be questioning that $1400. number too - wondering what they were going to cheat me out of in their effort to turn a profit.

I would imagine this area needs a hands on style and out of state owners present opportunities for local investors.

Your second most precious resource is one you don;t even realize you have, that is time.

Since I don’t want to put much money down, homepath financing appears to be a good starting point for me.I would like to buy some townhome properties and keep them as rental properties.Any suggestions for good homepath lenders would be appreciated.

Some states think they have thousands of these.“This is the most important issue of the whole mortgage mess because families are being thrown out of their homes by people who may not have the right to do that,†said Glenn Russell, a Fall River, Massachusetts, real estate attorney who won a case last year that reversed a foreclosure because of faulty paperwork.Mark and Tammy LaRace, his clients, were able to move back into their Cape Cod-style house in Springfield, Massachusetts, more than two years after they were evicted.In February, Judge Keith Long of the Massachusetts Land Court reaffirmed his 2009 decision to return the house to the LaRaces.

Originally posted by Feather Hand:...they probably don’t have to work any harder to sell an $800,000 house than they do a $200,000 house...That's the main fallacy in your post...That's like saying Donald Trump's CPA doesn't work any harder than the guy at H&R Block.

Here you can pay your taxes online :Taxes payable with credit cards, so no problem.If you don´t find your back taxes for your property you must call Treasurer Office, best choice I think.

They even had a cute little Japanese style bridge crossing over the center.

I don;t think God will strike you with a bolt of lightning Tim.

You couldn’t foresee that the credit markets would blow up like they did but you could have had a contingency for unexpected costs.