@Cory SchmidtWelcome to BP, It's like a fire hydrant once you open it up people will be coming out of the wood works offering info and the more you ask the more they will tell.

Walls and woodwork and flooring.

If you guys think getting REO offers accepted at a decent purchase price is hard now, try bidding against all the newbie cash-infused investor consortiums that have sprung out of the woodwork.

It's really aggravating as the good deals are few and far between, and there are "investors" coming out of the woodwork trying to flip houses.

Gutting to studs is often easiest,,,BUT sometimes is too damaging to design of house...Case in point, looking at my walls as typing, NICE old detailed woodwork including cove molding and extra plate rails.

That's because at 82, kids come out of the woodwork yelling that mom was taken advantage of and they get an attorney....you can have deal nullified easily if the kids get mom to say she wasn't thinking straingt!

I love building stuff and doing wood work - I have my own little wood working shop in my garage.

Ron Clarke,There seems to be a big influx of new investors coming out of the wood work in the Mid - Southern Virginia region.

Seems like WI folks are coming out of the wood work!

So I've come up with another scheme to get us started in the meantime...Background:I'm a full-time engineer and am also a fishing guide and woodworker on the side.