Notice, knowledge or a notice or notification received by an organization is effective for a particular transaction from the time it is brought to the attention of the person conducting that transaction, or from the time it would have been brought to his attention if the organization had exercised reasonable diligence.E.

. #5  Get to know the neighborhood police officers, city officials, and social service organizations in your area.

Your broker is actually purchasing the property and reselling it for a profit to another investor? 

In order to do that I must organize my finances and wondered if anyone had a great excel spreadsheet they can recommend to begin creating and daily & monthly budget with the goal of maximizing my savings to have the funds for a down payment.

I love you and appreciate you for reading it haha.So given the current situation we're in all, realistically all that we can do is find a SFR live and flip situation that we occupy for a year and resell as an exit strategy.If you have anything to add even if you don't think its helpful please post it anyway because maybe it'll get our brains stirring in some way. 

This is a very reputable local non-profit that will distribute funds appropriately to different organizations. 

As for gentrification that is a natural process that is a benefit not a negative.If you want to create affordable housing join or contribute to a charity organization don't start a business.

Can you connect me to the organizer of the events?

your job is to either get them paying again once you buy them or  foreclose and become the owner then resell or rent.2. there are note funds that will buy NPN and performing notes and do all the heavy lifting for you.. usually need to be accredited @Mike Hartzog has such a fund. 

How do I keep the seller-finances mortgage active even after I resell the house?