Either that or drop your offer substantially for that high of an obviously shady risk.

Understand that they will need to be kept busy or they will drop you as a customer.

Do you think you'll be doing the cleaning, painting, lawn mowing,, or are you planning on someone else..I managed 3 properties 1 br units, total of 15 apartments and had full time job, 2 kids at home, but help from my brother, and knew when to hire help to paint and turn units,, I could leave my job at the drop of a hat so any emergency stuff wasn't a problem for me, and buildings were in decent location so I wasn't more that 15 to 20 min away. 

If the owners drop their insurance, banks will purchase insurance and add it to the amounts owed.

Would anyone be willing to drop a little wisdom regarding the Chattanooga market?  

If you are passionate about what you are studying then do not drop out of school.

Click on the "Residential drop down".

Having a license doesn't change anything....it's fraud if you represent yourself as an owner occupant the don't occupy it and hud Does prosecute these, and many other competing investors will drop a dime on you for it.

We have NEVER had huge value drops like the USA and we don't have areas where there is no rental demand.

That price/sq ft gives you a pretty good ARV estimate of $288k, before even taking into account the busy road.I saw it posted on a few local investor facebook pages, including a $45k price drop that was not well received, so I would just flip it myself because anything more than $145k is not really a good wholesale deal.