I have not attended any seminars or felt a need to, because there is so much information out here for free (or low very cost) in biggerpockets, various podcast, and numerous great books! 

Well he now is missing in action despite numerous calls, emails, texts.

Question I would ask myself is how much did I pay for this and what is the risk vs reward.

As said before, owing a VHR property that can be arctic at times presents different challenges, but can be rewarding. 

Yes, there are some great buys in that area, but to me, the risk/reward ratio is too high.Start driving south from Joppa Rd on Harford Rd and to me, the whole tenor of the neighborhoods change at around Moravia Rd. and certainly by the time you get to Argonne Dr. 

I kept getting up and moving forward despite the numerous falls as a newbie landlord. 

@Roland Brown there are many strategies to making money in REI, but "sweat equity" has high rewards in an good market. 

However, this experiment in crowd-sourcing has resulted in a sort of local semi-celebrity status, with numerous mentions in area magazines, blogs, and whatnot.

The current first is for $102,000 but they do not want to give the borrowers more money to payout the property taxes or fix the roof- that's why have are looking for someone else.I agree that the risk likely outweighs the reward. 

There are numerous sites out there you can use to help you to figure this out as well: zillow, trulia, redfin, realtor.com etc.