I wrote a similar letter to the Treasury Dept. when the "toxic assets" where to be auction thru the TARP platform w/o inclusion of small and disadvantaged businesses.If you agree,  let's see if we can do this.

I know some auction platforms only allow the banks to participate (auction.com) and I think it sometimes artificially inflates the price because Joe Homeowner cannot sell his home on the most popular online auction platform but his bank can if he decides to walk away from his mortgage.  

have you looked at www.rentalutions.com/  maybe they can work with you on a larger platform.

As well as if you buy anything via an FHA loan you need to live there for a year.So nothing all that special there with a HUD house.Generally though with the idea of buying a place, living in it while fixing it and then selling it for a profit you should keep a few things in mind.1) A year, or more, is a long time and the market can change so there is a gamble.  

I can see it in bigger dollar markets, where the end user is in the several hundred thousand dollar range, a lot of the Valley is sub  $100K (I listed foreclosures in Fond du Lac and surrounding for 10 years)  You have a REIA in the area, maybe check them out, but every one i have looked at, is a platform for bottom feeders to sell wholesale deals to Newbies, and yes it works out sometimes, but be careful.  

As a last note, holding out for appreciation is akin to gambling, but I think you are right and was saying over a year ago that Augusta was undervalued.

Super easy to reach out to, should you need anything.Also, for options, there are loads of crowdsourcing platforms that are pretty good these days.

If you have used this platform let me know how your experience with it has been.www.******************.com

I'm excited to join this platform.

If I ever run into private money I will do my best to make that work but private money seems very hard to find, but hard money on the other hand seems like a big gamble especially with my lack of experience investing.