like many things in life... price moves product.  

I refer clients to Welcome Home Milwaukee all the time, because I know my clients will be taken care of on a 5 star level!

A lesson from a $700 water bill from a 3 year old toilet.Buy decent faucets, the cheapest ones fail quickly.Standardize your paint color and use a professional paint store, not a big box store that makes it differently every time.Use plastic flooring products. 

It's full of baby wipes and feminine products.

I'd like to hook up with an investor-friendly local lender or mortgage broker to see what kind of options or products I might have access to.

Sure but the issue is that I think it should be for people that want to own not for investor... the numbers are good for people that have difficulty to star to own... but I don't think it is good for investors since I want 6% 

They could ask for an out if they're unhappy with her service, a reduced timeline, an exception if they are working with an agent in a different market or for a different product in the same market (example: one agent for their residence, a different one for an investment property), if they buy directly from their uncle who is a builder, etc.

I still would not apply to me...per the definition of "commercial solicitation" in the state code at https://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t30c002.php(3) "Commercial solicitation" means contact by telephone, mail, or electronic mail for the purpose of selling or marketing a consumer product or service.I am in no way warketing a consumer product...or to consumers for that matter...

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If you get preapproved with a Hard Money lender you can buy a distressed property but if all you can get approved for is an fha loan it has to be a pretty solid property, of course unless you use the 203k product.