You enjoy some unemployment benefits but they can run out.

Ability to find and identify areas of improvement and analyze the cost/benefit equation of each.The fees can be great on a large deal, but as I said so is the potential liability.

I just wanted to benefit from a month of not paying a mortgage/rent.

You get the benefit from their knowledge, experience, and generousity.

Or if you are the type that get excited about all the money you can make in real estate, but the next day go right back to the things you were doing before, again, not much benefit from the seminar.

What (and when) are the bargains that with the benefit of hindsight will look smart?

As an added benefit, we all got a lesson in redevelopment and "highest and best use" of a piece of real estate.

I know some property management companies offer this service for a fee, but i can run the risk of them overestimating the repair cost for their benefit.2. is it possible to finance the repair costs from either the equity of the house, or through some other source that would consider the arv?

Each citizen should be required to serve, somehow, in some capacity of their choosing which is for a public benefit and is done without pay.

Some of the benefits are: It doesn't take much money to get started.