If you are tracking the market, get on the email lists of auctioneers in Baltimore, like Alex Cooper, Ashland Auctions, and Billig and track what is coming up for on sale in those neighborhoods. 

@Dean Schwertfeger,We are using Dave Cooper @ Paper City Savings in Wisconsin Rapids.

I did have to pay for materials up front and even though they were not fast painters they did a good job.3) The high bid crew was a cooperation painting outfit ($4 floor sq').

I'm not sure what the appropriate questions to ask are as I don't know a lot about real estate.. but pretty much any way we could take control of the property and/or keep the home.I understand that, given that the home is in his name and he doesn't want to cooperate with anything, we probably can't do anything, but I still have to ask.Thanks in advance!

I'did one recently with no mortgage, but with a mortgage you'll need some cooperation from the bank, perhaps switching to a blanket, as the agency likely won't split with just the one standard mortgage.  

short sale is difficult unless you got the cooperation of the former owner, remember even though you own the property the former owners name is on that first loan.who is the trustee on this one?

If you have to connect into sewer for instance and the owner next to you is not cooperating it can get very expensive to run alternative piping and a lift station etc. to make the project work.So most developers will get everything agreed in place and terms before they go "hard" with any non-refundable money.Otherwise one wrong thing happens and the project tanks and you lose your earnest money.As a developer you never let a seller hold your earnest money either.Even though by the contract they are obligated to give it back sometimes they already have spent the money or they make you take them to court and chase them to get the money back.This hinders your ability to now pursue other deals as you have money and time chasing people down.This is especially true in land assemblage for multiple parcels where you might have hundreds of thousands of dollars of earnest money on the line with multiple sellers.My experience working with a commercial developer for a few years and going to all the meetings and helping assemble the land.

Do I have to legally evict her from the property if she won't cooperate?

Unfortunately he's unwilling to cooperate.

The tenant might cooperate, might not, best to get a court order as to rents, this could be a separate matter or in connection with suit to partition the property.