[fourdez]

15 years ago, I moved into my house and rented it for a few month while we were waiting for the paperwork to purchase the house was completed. The house needed a lot of repair and we were itching to get started. My attorney told me (in no uncertain terms) do NOT touch the house until you've officially buy it. Which was great advise as we almost lost the house due to back taxes the original owner owed ( long story) but I would've been really been upset if I had started to fix up the house and in the end had to leave it. Thank God, all worked out in the end.