As a company my goal is always being accessible with 24/7 lines that are answered in English or Spanish.

Just finding a deal that is on the market and bringing partners in isn’t really worth 5-10% of the equity if this deal is accessible to others.

My husband and I went "driving for dollars," and we identified several homes within a 2 block radius that we could start reaching out to their owners about selling. 

Hello everyone, I haven’t been actively looking for another property to buy because I do not have anymore money for downpayment, but I’m trying to find other creative ways to do so and not let that be a road block.

If you have access to those non public documents, you are ahead of everyone else.

THE QUESTIONS:Should Johnny get a hard money loan to purchase the home and make repairs, then re-fi 6months later to access the equity and invest?

Granted, those are lower income or Section 8 units so they are a bit higher.Have you visited the property to see the block?

If you go in the attics and look towards the Gable wall of most masonry built houses you will be able to see the masonry block/brick construction.

From what I can tell, anywhere from a couple of blocks north of Chandler Blvd all the way south to Queen Creek seems like relatively lower risk/steady appreciation areas.

Hudson, Auction.com, Xome, HudHomeStore.com, RealtyBid, Hubzu, etc.But there are always bigger players like us that get access to them before they are listed anywhere, so you're picking through leftovers via any of these methods.For the most part, "listed REOs" is a dead market being bid up by every newbie so there aren't many deals to be found there.