Let me know if you have questions, I really went through and through the process on this deal. 

Would it be a good idea to take a deposit to secure the deal until the rule clears?

Focus on absentee owners and start with the ones who live the farthest away and only own one property in the area since they have the least use for the property.You can also drive for dollars, looking for anomalies of disrepair and then look them up in the tax records and use a site like Spokeo to do cheap skip tracing.

Also, any advice on managing budgets for PPC in the real estate sector would be really helpful.Thanks in advance for any insights. 

Syracuse is welcoming Micron - a 100 Billion dollar investment into the area over the next 20 years.

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One I close on that house, I plan to go buy a good lot and get a decent builder to build the next one. 

Here's a post I made on "non-conforming" vs "illegal/unpermitted", understand they are NOT the same thing.

We walked through a property that we went into thinking we were not going to like it and we ended up loving it and jumping on it pretty quickly after because the seller was getting other cash offers and the price/location/set-up of the property just fit our situation well. 

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