(yes) I am a real estate investor but I also have a real estate license but I wanted to check your home out and see if it is something I might be interested in buying as an investment. would it be ok with you if I took a few minutes to see the property? 

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So I wanted to see the best way to proceed:With the lease that they are under, it clearly states NO PETS.

its value is different for you compared to an investor and compared to an owner occupant. if your wholesaling than your value is as follows: ARV minus repairs, holding buying/selling costs & contingency, that total minus what you want to make as a wholeseller = purchase price/value of the homean investor may see the property in the same fashion just without the wholeseller portion so an investor is able to put a higher purchase price/value on it. an owner occupant doesnt see holding, buying/selling costs as an expense. they only see repairs costs as an expense normally so they would put a purchase price/value of the home even higher than a whole seller and an investor would. so the traditional mindset of a set value doesn't apply to real estate investing. that is more for the end buyer/user.

While searching for options for an HELOC, I found this deal at Navy Federal Credit Union. 95% LTV (less any existing mortgage) for personal residence; 70% for investment propertiesRate as low as 3.99% depending on credit; .25% rate discount with direct payNo closing costs as long as you keep the line open for 3 years; it stays open for up to 20 yearsYou can see the details on their website.

My idea was to just bring a contractor over to see the whole thing in one shot. 

Quick question: I'm kinda cheap... not that I don't see the virtue of having that site handle the mailing, but I wonder if I can do the mailings/letters myself?

As I'm getting older, I see the HR market is not the hottest in VA. 

We only need to look at Detroit, which has lost 60% of its population since its peak, to see the effects of that sort of population reduction.  

What everyone needs are products, services and policy structures designed by real estate investors, for real estate investors and one of those features is a portfolio type master policy, with no location limits, with the ability to insure multiple controlling entities and properties in any stage of renovation, in all 50 states, offering agreed value, special form coverage with theft and vandalism, the ability to actually reduce premiums incrementally by aggregating locations AND do it all on a monthly reporting basis so that you and your CPA can easily see the breakdown in coverage and premium for every location.