It's also not unusual for flippers doing deals in volume to use Gap Lenders and giving those lenders sizable returns for their risky investment.  

Occupied properties will make it nearly impossible to get title insurance, which also prevents financing.Each state has various redemption rules, so you have to know those for the state and the type of auction.People like to damage the properties before vacating, so it isn't unusually to go in and find the copper missing, the wires cut, water flooding the basement, the HVAC missing or cut, and holes punched in the walls and the floors.

Personally interested in Eugene, Bend, other east of the mountain areas... the rain is a bit much all winter. :) 

It's not unusual in Chicagoland for the REIAs to have a membership fee, or to charge for some meetings.  

For example, the numbers in South Bend Indiana are skewed because everyone there only lists on the weekends and they charge sky-high prices for the football games.

I actually prefer text for the most part, there are a few exceptions...those are the unusual circumstances.

@Matt Arden depends on a few things, but it's not unusually high

Just the sleep dep talking I guess, combined with a rough year in landlording paradise with an unusual amount of churn as well as unexpected cap ex: a gnarly eviction, a tenant that OD'd in a unit, a hailstorm that trashed a $30k roof, another hail storm that did a lot of random damage with hail chunks a tenant described as being cauliflower head/cannonball sized which broke a solid oak deck handrail among many other things on the property, a sewer line that needed to be replaced which required jack hammering up the slab in a kitchen I had just finished fully remodeling, plus the new baby and the two other babies it's been quite a long year already so far.

@Nigel Prentice I would say a few for draws is unusual in lending.

It’s not unusual to go your first 3-6 months without getting paid.