It sounds like the misunderstanding is centered on your expectation to get 100% Financing.

My wife also did a post on staging one of our houses.

Those will be the areas you can lead into.Examples: What impact do you think the new shopping center over yonder will have?

Finish the house, stage it, then put it on the market.  

Of course, you will have to pay the arrearages before the house goes into foreclosure.If the nursing home/hospice center has outstanding medical bills for your grandmother, they can attach liens to the house as well.

It is becoming apparent that this growth was simply the first spins in a flywheel that has the potential to propel Tucson from a sleepy old-western town into a thriving economic center. 

Meanwhile the back-ground noise in the call center drowned out the conversation so much that I could not hear the person I was speaking with and could barely hear my own thoughts.

The closest you can do is buy in a solid growth market as close as possible to it's infancy stage so you can experience as much appreciation as possible.

I understand during this stage there is not much to do but wait.

I have to do a project with a huge equity component upside to it or I just stay transacting commercial retail centers with clients buying properties directly and I usually make six figure commission checks off of that each time.