Currently a majority of the existing mixed use buildings have the commercial space shuttered with the owners just biding their time until the real estate prices make sense for them to rent out or sell - or they are just asking way too much in rents for any businesses to survive for very long.

If you find a deal you can always make an offer contingent on selling your existing properties.

I understand home designs are pretty expensive, and cannot just be applied to any lot/existing neighborhood.

That's why welcome trolls exist.

Recognizing its strategic location behind two of my existing investment properties, I approached the owner directly.

Hopefully a) they meet/exceed my expectations over time and b) more auditable info/data comes into existence based on the experience of Flock shareholders, in contrast to the rather limited info/data that exists today. 

Brics has a sales pitch that's hard to deny "F-the US dictating how you exist" and to most countries in the world, that pitch sounds really nice.

I also have lost out on a house because I was some dollars short of the 10%.I know the area and property quite well, and familiar with the foreclosure case for the particular property in question.The reason I ask is, because I am not physically in the area and wanted to see if any service exists, where they can bid on your behalf, when you tell them your maximum, and perhaps hook up with a HML, where the 10% down payment in certified funds is not a hinderance.

We renovate our units each time an existing tenant moves out of a newly purchased property.

Zombie foreclosures came into existence because at the bottom of the downturn banks/lien holders faced a problem that they had never encountered before.