All were distressed needing a lot of work. 

I'll stick with notes, thank you.https://thinkrealty.com/distressed-sales-share-dro...

I found that my niche is selling distressed properties or properties at a discount.

Once a house is listed cheap (REO, distressed, etc) the Zestimate plummets.

Buying a distressed piece of vacant land to "flip" may just be shifting a problem from one person to another.

You hav to be fast though, sellers go down the list calling and emailing when they're in a distress situation.  

Hi I found a couple of distressed properties in my area with notices on them.

If you are looking to strictly buy another place, I would probably take the cash out by just putting a loan on it, but if you're looking to pick up some distressed properties, fix them up and put them on a loan(BRRRR strategy), then I think using a HELOC on that existing property would be smart as you can draw and replace the funds essentially as much as you would like to snowball the portfolio.

Join the Rarebird organization.. run by two very experienced folks in the space 30 to 50 members come every month guest speakers..no pitching..and you can make some nice contacts.the market is Oregon you will find to be quite different than most of GA.. there simply is not the amount of distressed assets.

Especially if they're distressed.