If i see them anywhere near anything I own I rip them down as a matter of course..If you want to do that .. buy a billboard.. or you can advertise on bus's bench's one of my agents did that quite effectively.. and one of the major distress home buyers in the PDX market uses bus bench's.. 

I mostly work in New Construction so I've got contractors to add to the pot.

My undergrad was in biochemistry and now I am pursing Master in Bioscience which will put me into business world of pharmaceutical/biotech companies ( I wont do any bench chemistry lab work). 

As I eluded to, sometimes it pays to fold your hand and start over, cutting your losses on one hand and winning the next pot!

Add to the pot that three or more of the original builders have also forclosed on many brand new homes in the subdivision (30+, 14 even on one street).

Not the greatest "pot odds" but not bad.  

So how does it sweeten the pot?

Values will not climb for ever and when they turn there will be a lot of appreciation speculators wishing they had taken their pot of gold when they could.

We purchased at 75% ARV with cash (HELOC), refinanced up to 85%, added the extra funds to the pot and bought a SFR two months after that with the same gameplan (this time 80% ARV with cash, then refinanced to get our money back plus some). 

I would love to throw some money into the pot if you get something going.