If you use a cash-out refi, you can deploy the money elsewhere to partially offset that interest if it will be sitting idle a while.

but I borrowed money to use as a downpayment. 

Found this property through our local online foreclosure auction site.

There are a lot of websites that offer the course online, or if you have a college near you, they also typically offer a class that satisfies the pre-licensing requirement.

These are features like online renter payments, tenant portal (for payments and work orders), help keeping track of work orders, tax reporting features, and accounting functionality.

You should be able to send it to the court clerk with the case number (you should be able to find it online or call the court).

You’re paying big money to target people who explicitly want to hold on to their homes, all in the hope of convincing them to sell.

So we don't have a lot of money to start with.

Learn the eviction procedure for your area, perhaps contact a lawyer in the field to help you with this one, and get the fraudster you're currently housing out on the sidewalk to sleep in a cardboard box where they belong.You're going to lose plenty of money here, but this will never happen to you again, and you can minimize your losses if you move as quickly as possible.

Hard money is a great financing program to get you going.