Glad you joined the best real estate investing website! 

Also go join or at least attend some local REIA or investor meetups.

Before jumping into either, I recommend joining a local meetup or mentoring group, where you'll learn from the experience of others in metro Detroit.  

Glad you joined the best real estate investing website!

Definitely join her turnkey rental properties group on Facebook if you have interest in that type of investing, I’ve learned a ton and for free!

So I facebook stalked her a bit and realized we went to the same church, I joined her bible class :) got to talk to her more, invited her to lunch.

@Ronald Rotondi Happy to have you join us in the bluegrass state again.

They will not have to make a second case, they will simply name you and join you to the original case.They set the opening bid of the foreclosure auction via legal notice published 42 days out from the auction date.Cash for keys is not possible. 

Just by joining you are taking the 1st step to financial freedom.Ultimately, you will need to decide on your ultimate goal for investing in real estate and then determine how you want to get involved/start.

At 17 and with $290, I would start planning and doing a few things: I would stick with learning as much as I could here on BP for free, maybe joining some local RE groups and get to those meetings where I could mingle with them and get known, being 17 you have youth as both an advantage and as a DISADVANTAGE till people get to know and know you as a dependable dedicated man on paper and screen till you have successes under your belt you may be looked more as a liability as you are 17 so you must prove your worth more.