Granted, I am a part-time flipper, but most houses I see the pricing does not make sense for what I have to pay for labor.  

It’s unfortunate as their loan officer was stellar.

Have you thought about house hacking? 

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Quote from @Jaycee Greene: Assuming you pay asking price, I'd estimate the down payment for something like that using a hard money loan (HML) would be around 40% of the purchase price and your monthly payment would be $2,600 with an interest rate in the low 7% range (probably need a 700+ credit score to get that).

I ask because we only buy houses around the southern US (TX,OK,AR,TN) but we're curious to know if more opportunities to buy foreclosures could potentially exist in other markets. 

I first started out in Real Estate by house hacking in college. 

I'm thinking of buying this as a rental, renting out the house and fencing the back part and renew a lease to rent it separately.

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My electrician insisted in rewiring my house without ripping out the existing drywall.