I think I'm with Luis here, I'm very uncomfortable gambling on future tax rates and the future structure of the tax code, and it is a gamble, make no mistake.

Around here, not having a window in a bedroom would be a code violation, as well as a tough sell. #2 looks like it has 3 bedrooms with no windows.

They paid him $160k (the ACV from 12 years before when he bought the policy and never increased coverage) and the quote to rebuilt to current codes was $480k.

Did the homeowner do that or the city for code/building violations?

What areas or zip codes seem like good up and coming areas?

I might have a couple hundred bucks by the time I pay to have everything coded in that I want (I'm not a programmer/coder) then I'll pay under $5 for a shared hosting account and have everything I want/need at my fingertips.

People use throw away numbers so code enforcement can't bust them -- that's not really the way I want to run my business.

Red flags (such as code violations etc) generate motivation, combined with equity generally lend themselves to producing deals.

My past experience has shown that open source projects (usually written in PHP or Java) are great because you just look at the source code and modify it to do whatever you want.

I am in York as far as a zip code but really closer to Lancaster CO than York city.