I have a buddy over in your area who has lived there for quite sometime so he has a pretty good knowledge of the area.

I have a buddy Billy Alvaro, I have an AWESOME interview with him on my video blog [here if your interested: http://youtu.be/xx9UeTNKFek ] that does a lot of fire damaged houses and he says that they are always his best money makers!

Plus it will save you the possibility of running into a nightmare like I did..my buddy owns his own painting company, and it took him almost three coats to get rid of the olive colored tint from his old tub. it cost him a hundred fifty bucks in glaze, and my guess is that it will cost you about the same to get rid of the blue.

I have a buddy whole selling and he is willing to pay me half of his profit for bird dogging he is working with a partner.

Good luck buddy.

And yes please message me some of these banks if you can,  my own credit union wouldn't do under 50kThanks for the detailed response buddy. 

Network with co-workers, church folks, gym buddies, golfing buddies, whatever to see if something's coming open.  

Where does my agent buddy come in to play?

I enjoy showing people the great area's around and in Detroit Hey Scott,I am 100% in.Busy days over the next 4-6 weeks but please shoot me an email at [email protected] and we can book it in advance.I'll bring my glock with me just in case along with my awesome 3 buddies called Chico, Chico and Chico hahahahaCharlie,Get your self here and you can also come and check out Toledo.Thanks guys

I have buddies in PA getting SFR from the county tax repository sales for $500-2.500 each.Locate and attend 3 different local REIA club meetings great place to meet people gather resources and info.