You want the guy making the decision to think of you when he has a REO to unload.

  ( like many other rust belt cities not Hating on Detroit)I lost 100k there.. on notes before... took houses back rehabbed them they got stripped yet again before we could unload them..

But as I continued growing in my home town another investor called wanting to unload two duplexes and three houses so he can have capitol to invest in other means.  

@Christopher Morin  Lumber supply company can provide an engineer if you have good as-built drawings.  

Ive already had interest in this property so shouldnt be too difficult to unload. 

Just unload everything when you hit 90 and you will be fine. :)As I like to say, "Last time was different." 

“Good contractors” don’t buy materials at the box stores, they buy from lumber yards, electrical, plumbing, and tile supply stores.

Purchased a few years back, rehabbed, rented for a year or so, hoping to have it sold in the next few weeks. they're building a city dump a few blocks away and i want to unload it before i have to deal with it.i'll tell you what i did. figure out how to find the auctions in houston https://dailycourtreview.com/ ($20 a year or $2 in quarters in newspaper machine in front of where they have the auctions)Also, the websites of delinquent tax attorneys Linebarger Goggan Blair and Sampson, at http://www.lgbs.com, or Perdue Brandon Fielder Collins & Mott, atwww.pbfcm.com, contain lists of the properties set for tax sale by the taxing units they represent.searched for houses near my current place research them (google/zillow/trulia/redfin/realter/har).comdrive by the houses analyse what you're willing to spend on itfind one or more that you're willing to invest indo a foreclosure title search a few days before the auctiona few days before to make sure it wasn't removed from the auction block, thus wasting a few hundred dollars.also to make sure there a no outstanding liens on the property that could cost you moreregister for the auctiontake a big wad of cash that you've been saving for years and get small cashiers checks 1k/5k/10k/etc to the auction and watch the other biddersthen bid..The property i got was starting at 30K... someone bid 30k, someone else bid $30,100, then i walked behind them and said $35k. maybe i scared them off by bidding 5k more, maybe they didn't want the property anyway.some of these bidders for $5 at a time trying to maximize their returns. i was new, and i'm 6'4", so maybe intimidating?

If your getting astronomical numbers, get on board with a local lumber yard.

I almost had a 6-family in Framingham with seller financing, but the owner decided to unload to another investor... good luck!