Talents: We have done some remodeling on two of the three houses we've owned, with the largest projects being a new roof (self installed) and taking down a major load bearing wall (also DIY with advice of structural engineer).

It seems at any given time you can find 2-3 houses with the exact same floorplan, lot size, features, etc. on the market.

He gave me the book, a pen, a pad of paper, and gave me a six pack of spring water bearing his real estate guru brand name.

I am sure y'all have seen this already since Yahoo featured it. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Borrowers-exit-troubled-Obama-apf-887634101.html?

If you can't, open a checking account with the seller and buyer on the account and use an automatic draft feature to pay the mortgage.

BTW, I'm the world's worst speller and typos are easy.....I love spell check and think it would be a great feature to add to BP!

You got to get used to some of the features.

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If you were smart, you made an interest bearing investment with the $30k, so take that money and consider it the "inconvenience discount".