Attend in person, bid, if you win you have to pay right then via a cashiers check.

Buy and holds is the key to true wealth with all the benefits of depreciation, appreciation, loan pay down by your tenants, leveraging the equity, cash-flow etc etc, but it often times isn't the active income that pays the bills until you build up a portfolio and even then there's the tenant management or managing your property managers.That's why I'm involved in all 3.

Once you start to get people in there to look at project to project, that will give you a baseline then you'll start to gain more knowledge on where you need to be on the pricing/estimates etc.

Since then, I've chosen the Couer d'Alene/Post Falls area and have already started working with an agent.

have it go to a month to month for next sixty days then renew the lease at the higher term after that. 

Not worth it to me.In my area if the pool has a powered safety cover that can hold body weight, then a barrier fence is not required.

Then if you still 100K off, I would start dropping the price in a big way to get to an even playing field. 

You might find the answers to your questions there but I know that the search function is less then optimal so feel free to send me a DM if you don't easily find what you're looking for.I've never bothered commenting much about Canada because, until recently, it made no sense for US investors to invest in Canada: much less favorable mortgage conditions if they could even get one, much more expensive prices on average and much less profitable on average.

So, we network and build, and then learn, based on our past experience, how to analyze more efficiently or how to shrink our buy box.

Something is missing...if there isn't a Board and the HOA (or I assume more likely a COA) is newly formed then why isn't the developer still in control of the HOA?