Your personal credit is usually irrelevant if you find a profitable deal to take advantage of in a reasonable amount of time.They are loaning money to the property per se,not you personally.There needs to be tons of profit to potentially be made after you have made the repairs and improvements to the property and put it up for sale.

Lots of SE WI contacts are active on the blogs. 

During Katrina there thousands of people displaced throughout southwest La. and SE Texas.

But I do not se any opportunity in here in San Diego.

At the end of 2011 I bought a property in SE PDX with a 700 sq. ft. two bed, one bath house and a smaller one bed, one bath detached ADU on it.

Nick, it will be subject to SE tax, it would be just like 1099 income, depending how you do it, it will either contribute to you income and adjust your rate as any other additional income would, or at short term cap gains rate.

Not asking to actually value the house per se, but rather to say "there's no way that arv (given to me by a real estate agent or some other resource) will go over in that neighborhood."

Hi my name is rafael, im a real estate investor from lebanon pennsylvania, currently own a few rentals and also bought and flipped one house and working  on my se ond flip, would like to get recommendations on good rehabbers, contractors in my area since im doing all the work myself, any info will be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.

In SE PA, for example, pre-1950 homes often have plaster walls, lead pipes and obsolete wiring if they haven't been renovated. 

I'm interested in getting into the SE Minnesota market. have family there and would like to move back to the area. i know an in person meet up may not be possible, but i would like to talk deals.