I would drop the hammer...no mortgage under your name and you can refinance out.

Working contractor (As Cole said) - Has worked in the trades for years swinging a hammer and putting in the hard work and sweat learning his trade as a carpenter, plumber, mason ect.

The last thing you want is to pay out of pocket to have snow removed because Boston got hammered in the middle of May (or some other unforeseen expense).

not only the state hammers them.. but the borrowers will look for lender cram downs.

Sold properties are the way to hammer down the actual value and use it as a baseline for what price the property will sell for.  

My advice would be to really hammer out those numbers and make sure they are correct.

While my dad taught me to swing a hammer and paint a wall, I have been learning some of the finer points about real estate investing from you guys here at BiggerPockets!

Throw a dart at a map anywhere north of Hammer Lane and you are bound to hit one of these properties.Having seen owned and rehabbed a good number of triplexes and duplexes that fall into this category I have really come to love this property "class".

So just like when you are a hammer, everything looks like a nail, every wet basement needs their product. 

There will usually be a contractor there that buys 10+ properties, and bidding increases are 100, so you can really just hammer away and go back and forth..obviously with math... the lower the appraised houses are... the bidding "cushion" is only 10-30k.