Hey Michael - get up, dust your self off and find your self a real mentor who might be able to spend 30 to 45 mins with you every week either face to face or over the phone.

In this extremely competitive North East market, we have realized that it's very difficult to bag great to good deals.

Also, since they are concerned with wind spreading more lead dust off the pile, I don't know why they would even mitigate houses already.

For instance, they charge 35k for a kitchen remodel that would normally be 15k.I understand that 203k loans can be a mixed bag, but does anyone have any insight they can share on the contractor bidding process? 

not to be a Debbie downer on the banks financing this for you.. but its just not their bag.. 

I've been self employed for all my adult life and I still remember once when I bagged my biggest landscape account, the phone rang off the hook after, and I seemed to get every job I bid on.

I know one hedge fund from CA that went into low end Detroit and I have been trying to help them best I can . but no one can help an investor when the area turns to dust..When I was investing in Columbus Ohio there was a Hedge fund from NY that dropped 20 million into the market and lost most of it.. and that was pre bubble they were terrible investors just had no clue as to the asset class and whats involved

. - Done and dusted.

This might be more landlording, but my biggest rookie mistake was after a successful remodel, thinking we had it in the bag.

The first night I brought her over, the conversation before entering the house was a 10 minute preface of why there is building material everywhere, dust in the sink, an old broken fish tank in my bedroom.