I am currently an NCO in the Army and I am getting the ball rolling on something that finally feels right.

I am retired Army.

Obviously none of they knew of the fire or looked at the property in the last few days.At tax sale I have seen people have bought:US Army bombing rangeExpired lease on propertyhouse with 3 walls, 4th wall missingsliver of land 2 feet wide50 foot cliff, access by helicopter onlyland at bottom of man made lake (literally underwater property)wetlandsflood plainsunbuildable propertyfailed perk testhistoric dig site, can't disturbproperty with no road frontagecondemned propertyproperty already scheduled for demolition soonformer gas station with leaking gas and oil tanks undergrounddry cleaning plant with toxic wasteSuper fund sitechromium factory with tanks and barrels of an unknown liquiddistillery with full barrells (ATF and state government was very interested and wanted to seize and destroy those barrells)Bigger Pockets Podcast #82 

The Salvation Army is putting up our tenants in a hotel until the end of the week.

I understand your concerns about citizens fighting the governmental army with our guns, but I disagree with the plausibility of some of your statements.

For this place we let the client know we were calling Salvation Army to donate.

My helper always looks at the 'short term',,,and I have been schooled to look at the long term, like you.Its alot like painting or siding a house,,a no brainer.My affordable labor is two armies I enjoy.Left army and right army.I recently started to do my own ceramic and need MORE experience.

THEN I send direct mail :)All about leverage, economy of scale, and I need an army of realtors who will bring me deals...

Every industry has wholesalers....the bananas we eat passes through series of wholesalers before it gets into the stores....It is only fraud when a bank makes a decision based on wrong information provided by agents, appraisal, buyer or sellers....However, the notion that flipping a short sale at an "artificially inflated price" is just one way their legal armies are using to frustrate the common investor.By the way, there is nothing called an artificially inflated price in a free market ....buyers and sellers are free to negotiate any price they want and as long as a buyer is willing to pay what i'm asking, because he feels i'm providing him value for the service of getting him a good deal, then there is nothing artificial in that....Where were all these restrictions when they were mass producing these bad mortgages and re-packaging them to be sold on wall street and exported all over the world?

You are correct VT offers some unique situations like the Oil Heat $$ (@Eric Army)!