I know that I would be scrambling to find all the evidence I could find for any gambling losses that I had.

Putting your hard earned money into something that you don't completely understand is gambling and definitely a recipe for disaster.

Don't gamble with what you can't lose.

I did a commercial assessment of a gas company, half acreand a block building with a large propane tank and concrete platform, it was $1,200 as i recall.

Are we just gambling with the EMD hoping we can find a cash end buyer (investor) and close on the property within a week or two??

Your general knowledge on the steps required to purchase, rehab, and sell for profit seem to be quite lacking.I would find a steady paying job and over the next 12 months work on fixing your credit, saving some working captial, and increasing your understanding of the Real Estate Investment platform.

Or at the very least, shouldn't their be a platform for submitting such an offer?

I agree with both Jason and BryanA that you don't see as many flippers here these days because many got wiped out on their gambles in the bubble burst.That said, I think it is harder to flip now tehn tehn because of only one factor: Any property you purchased back in 2004/2005 could be sold 3-6 months later for a profit of $50k to $100k without doing ANYTHIING to it.

One of my clients had a friend/associate take a briefcase with $1 million with him to London and "invested" in a trading platform to make 10X the money in very little time.He lost all of it.

I'm a co-contributer too on a free google site, google is a better platform that office live.I've heard good things about VRBO but just can't fork over the $350 they want yearly, yet.