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To: LindyBill who wrote (146736)	11/12/2005 5:00:38 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 794279

Earlier today my wife was watching a TLC program on "home-flipping" - it had a couple of houses people bought, renovated and made available for resale at a profit. The prices were unbelievable - one was a small mold-covered dump, looked like an abandoned house bums had been living in for years - and the renovator bought it for $540K (if I remember right). Incredible. I would have said they should have just burned the thing down. I sat down to watch the show just to see how they were going to make the place presentable. Well, they did spending $80K to do it - pulled out everything down to the studs and replaced everything, scraped the grounds down to the dirt. And afterward a Century 21 guy said it would be worth $740+. Those prices floor me.