To get started, I see myself getting my feet wet with self-managing small multi-families with the possibility of living in one of the units. 

I have recently sent out my first round of DM letters and have a few other irons in the fire, so I need to act with urgency.

I looked at an REO today and there was at least 5 feet of standing water in the basement.

I'm just learning this real estate thing and I would like to get my feet wet once I learn some things.  

Been sitting on the market for a while.So the house has been sitting on the market for 75 days in a hot market, no one is in a rush to get paid, foundation issues, roof imploding, smells like cat urine (the smellier the better), so beat up that all the local flippers are scared of it and/or make insultingly lowball offers that the seller has just been round-binning, but hey it's got a great location.

Unless your in a market like the Bay area were you pay 1.5 mil for the lot and build a nice spec for 200 a foot say 3k feet for 600k  and have 2.1 in it and sell for 2.9  which is common the 15% of project cost work.but if your in a market were lot is 100k   build is 200k and end product say is 350k.. and you pay 30k to the builder that is far to much by double.we hire for flat fee if we are financing the whole job and they are simply acting as GC and have no monetary involvement.  10 to 15k a door. is what we pay.. and if we are so inclined there can be a bonus if we do real well.hope that helps.. careful to tag your jobs to % of gross construction costs you may not like were you end up.

So I checked it out and measured mine, and sure enough, theres about an extra 100 square feet.

I am in need of a patient and experienced agent in the north Austin/ Round Rock/ Pflugerville area. 

I'm new to the business and looking to get my feet wet.  

Also, the grass doesn't need to be two feet high.