You'll need to deal with a local/regional bank that is willing to sit down and customize a loan, not a national lender.

Louis City population has hit it's bottom and is projected to grow fast.1940: 816k1950: 856k1960: 750k1970: 622k1980: 453k1990: 396k2000: 348k2010: 319k2016: 316kCity average home prices are lower than the region, but he doesn't expect that to last too long.From 2000-2016 average income in the city is up 10%, primarily due to attracting college educated white millennials.

Does anyone know of any grant programs that offer $10,000-$15,000 in the Northeast Region?

It seems there is a different site that people gravitate to in each region.

My house flip and new construction hunting grounds are in the Gulf Coast region of our nation.

You haven't mentioned how much cash you have available, so if the Seattle region is a stretch, look elsewhere.  .  

Valuating real estate has fewer variations than business because analysis is limited to similar projects within the region (as opposed to the same businesses running across the country and overseas) and fewer variable inputs (wages, supply chains, distribution chains, marketing campaigns, etc.), but still presents challenges because the analyst needs to know what data to include and how much weight is given, and what presumptions to make.  

Particularly in the Midwest region where the market is cheaper. 

@Mazin El-Achkar and @Olivier LePage i'm getting ready to settle in Saint-Jean-Sur-Richelieu this summer and I was wondering if you guys had any real estate experience in that region?

Then you find out two years later that they've been painting walls dark purple and the mirror they wanted to sand and paint was actually broken in half and is now held together by Gorilla glue and a large strip of duct tape.I hope that's not what's happening.