Since this will be a low volume job that require a good response time, I assume that we will need some sort of national service that has the volume to manage what we are doing.The primary purpose of this post is to collect those service company's names, people's experience with them, or general strategies in solving this problem.With this information, we may change our stradegy.I will PM you though to start a dialog.

Yeah Nick it is harder and harder to find deals out there.This condo will be my first single family home, of sorts.

This is the sort of property that you would have to go to 50% LTV to get financed and someone with $100K to put in the property can likely find a more solid property at a higher leverage with that $100K to invest.

Sort of like DeBeer's keeping the supply of diamonds low.

I don't guess on values based on comps, it is much more of a science sorting and adjusting the comps and a specific knowledge of the local market conditions.

I'm hoping I can network with all sorts in the business and please all and any advice is welcome!

as long as you are not putting a machine into the stream bed and disturbing it directly its not a big deal unless there is some sort of fine print that the others are talking about that you need to get a wetlands agency envolved.

The tax deed sale sorted out the whole process.

But just up the road is Grant Park, which is sort of like an island.

I figured I would wait until about Feb 1 in hopes that the market picks up just a hair to generate some more interest.