., location not so ideal but high traffic area, selling as is, fixer upper.Cash or owner financing only - 300K down.Thinking of making an offer of 450K to pay cash, using HELOC.Thoughts?

From what I can tell from the plans thus far, there will be limited "green space" or "communal areas" (the developer committed to "total green space equal to 1/2 of a soccer field") which I suspect will drive foot traffic to the local residential neighborhood. 

Unfortunately they seem to get more traffic than VRBO.

I am on a hill for drainage, behind the Home Depot and WalMart, two blocks North of Brandon Blvd. convenient to everything and away from the noise and traffic in Tampa.

This varies by state and area.Second check the vehicles per day traffic count.

The dream of someday leaving the crime infested, 2 hour traffic to get 30 miles to work life and raising kids in small towns with little league baseball and riding through town on a bike could be lost, so the decided now is the day. 

I have seen many owners show up at the auction and hand the cryer a cashiers check paying off their loan they are allowed to do this is they are the owner and the auction never goes through Dangerous thing to do if for some reason your stuck in traffic and cant get there ( seen that happen to). 

Crime was way more than it was shown in city database as most of the things were never reported.Actual rent collection was only $4200 by 18 tenantsPark had very bad repo in area (Which was known to us)What we did after buying:Worked on road (new milling road), removed extra trees, cleaned 40-50 dumpster of trash.Worked with city development agencies to remove bad tenants via evictions or stationed police officers on weekend to deteriorate drug traffic, incentivized good tenants to provide us video /call cops with videos so that cops visits are frequent.Removed bad homes and brought in 7-8 newer homes from other parks.Repaired around 19 houses in last 18 months and brought up average rent $680 per home.

Winter months mean higher prices because of the higher demand, but summer vacationers can be great too (except for John Candy).Rather than chasing potentially profitable deals, figure out who your target market is (an overworked Air Traffic Controller from Atlanta), figure out what they want/need, supply that, then market the property in Atlanta.When you find the property that meets those needs, the ability to rent it for less than 30 days is a bonus.

However, until less car travel is a way of life our streets are going to be a lot of fun to drive on because of increased traffic!!