Was it hard getting involved with real estate after your bid ?

They refer to it as their "bid room".Good luck.

Contractors have the ability to bid higher because there is a lot of work and if they don't get something they are less worriedThe pictures are great but the roof shingles don't look too terrible.  

Some of your statements just don't add up to an agent not performing as you expected, actually helping you win a bid in an obviously competitive market where you'd lost several already.

I learned about the free tools - Zillow, Trulia, Bing Maps, Netronline - how to check title, get BPOs, where to look for bank contacts and sources, how to evaluate the property and develop a bid based upon my initial selected exit and to view REAL deals in progress and watch the results, good or bad.

we do notes as well. for non performing loans we say $800M in loans last quarter, we bid on approx. $50M of them and our hit rate (what we close on), is typically around 10%.

@Kelsey VanSleenFor a tax deed sale, essentially you will bid to pay off the tax lien that was placed on the property and then you will inherit the rights to ownership of that property if you are the winner.

Bidding wars for homes and First Right of Refusal simply means you've got to be the highest bidder every time. 

While doing this, ask them what they are looking for when giving a bid.

If you don't like it I'm sure you can get bids to remove it fairly cheaply, then put up your Hardy plank, or whatever.