So, in thinking about what my interests in Real Estate are - I am primarily interested in house hacking - and my dreams of being debt free, I landed on purchasing some of the BP recommended Real Estate books, reading through them by the end of this year, and attempting to purchase a duplex somewhere around May/June of 2017.

Currently I'm looking into a 50000k heloc after a failed attempt at a cash out refinance.

If you really want an attempt at this property just put in an blind offer at what you think it's worth (or even lower so you got some room to negotiate).

For a flipper to rehab and attempt to resell what percentage is he going to pad the deal for these unknowns?

My appraisal addendum expires Tuesday evening (was already extended by mutual agreement) to attempt to find resolution, so looks like my cost is just an appraisal.I feel bad for the folks as they are looking to move out of state and have a deal going at their destination... sure hope they had contingencies on closing this sale so they aren't loosing their earnest money, although by the tone of the sellers responses it sounds like they are getting hammered on both ends.

I will attempt to attend one of the meetings here in the hampton road area but with my schedule on ship it may be difficult.

They will devote the bulk of the weekend to attempting to enroll you in a roughly $37,000 program which actually is not intended for beginners, anyway - it's a business development program better suited to established REI businesses.

But then I go to the next level to attempt to be a little more accurate.  

I have done direct mail but I haven't seen much return and I understand it will take a few attempts but I don't money at the moment.

She wrote back that he told her he received a "substantially" higher offer and that the very day he attempted to cancel his counter offer to me 9 hours early, he went into contract with another buyer.When I received the e-mail containing his written withdrawal of the counter I thought "oh well, that's that" and initially thought I had lost the right to accept his counter offer.