You can't even look at a foreclosure so you don't want to buy your first investment site unseen.

The resale of this property won’t get title insurance from most (if not all) title insurers until 12 months from the date of the sheriff sale; they assume three months to record the sheriff’s deed.

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I had the listing on Avail (which I use as a rental manager, and posts to many other popular rental sites), Zillow, and Facebook Marketplace.I already have a Section 8 tenant at Property #1 (which I acquired during the purchase), so I'm not opposed to the program at all, and to be honest, they pay above market rent in my area, so that worked for me.

So we always counsel our clients to look at using contract clauses to make the dates of closing for the sale and purchase line up.

Lots of wholesalers put their homes up for sale on site like Zillow so you can look for properties being sold their and try to get on their lists.

There is all the trades but what about trainers for the trades, project Managers, draftspersons, logistics, site survey, submittals, on and on and on..... 

Looking up the flopper, I came across this site so I guess it's a blessing in disguise.I think if you made it here, you're far enough in REI to know what to weed out and that's likely syndications(for now).

What is a reasonable price to hire someone to go on site to measure the home and then draw the plans?

We are forecasting 14 duplexes situated on this site.