While this seems great, It's only been 1 deal, in six months of driving driving driving (over 2000 properties), mailing absentee owners over and over (1,700 properties), and scouring the internet for possible deals.

My wife and I are just starting out as investors too, planning on rehab and buy and hold a few to, concentrating on single family homes, out here in Maryland but currently have the house on the market, planning on relocating out that way in the general Bellingham area, But gotta sell the house out this way first!

It is interesting how things evolve.Back in the day newspaper ads were considered very affordable and high impact.Now with the internet the prices seems very high since there are so many dirt cheap and free online places to advertise.

turns into a "claims"... ah the internet...

My older tenant who "doesn't think the Internet is safe" deposits her check at my bank.

I think it looks like a good purchase as long as no differed maintenance pops up, such as a huge plumbing issue or anything else like that.Have you thought about how else can you get additional revenue, like laundry machines, wireless internet with a month access code, DVD rental, or vending machines in the common area?

There is also a lot of other info on the internet about buying HUD.

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Get those min bids, work quickly to whittle down the list to the ones that fit your criteria, research those homes best you can in the internet, drive by them and go bid.

But, I'll just concentrate on a small scale on the residential side.