YUP no agent is going to spend there time when U cannot transact and I am sure if the shoe was on the other foot you would not want anyone just playing you.what you can and should do though is go to open houses.. this is free to all. 

When we purchased the property, effective rents were roughly $.79/square foot.

The estimate is as follows:1) “dig 18”x18”x12” footings, install four #4 rebar reinforcements and fill using 4000 psi concrete.

I was thinking of sending them a welcome packet to start off on the right foot.- Got any other tips??

Unless there’s something else I’m missing, there is no world in which you should touch this deal with your worst enemy’s 10 foot pole...

I scraped and saved and, within a few months  had saved enough for the down payment on a 400-square-foot condominium.

Hopefully a good agent that knows what they are doing will sell it for you and deal with the hard parts of the sales process.Honestly, unless you have done SEVERAL real estate transactions yourself, know all the active, pending, and recent closed sales, knowledgeable with real estate financing and which lenders to use, know how to speak to appraisers, and are an expert negotiator, you are shooting yourself in the foot by not hiring a realtor. 

My personal recommendation would be that you look for something a little more straightforward, to get your foot in the door and start building relationships with folks who could help you pull this kind of project off.

He got a foot-wide strip of landKerville Holness thought he’d done a great job snapping up a $177,000 Tamarac villa for only $9,100.But that’s not what he actually bought during a Broward online auction of properties that had defaulted on their taxes.He got a 1-foot-wide, 100-foot-long strip of land on Northwest 100th Way — valued at $50.It starts at the curb where two mailboxes have been installed, goes under the wall separating the garages of two adjoining Spring Lake villas, then extends out to the back of the lot.And officials say he’s stuck with the deal.So what can Holness do now?

Just be aware that Price per square foot is not a reliable way to estimate value unless you are comparing condos in the same building or identical model homes in a subdivision.Too many other factors like age, lot size, etc throw off the PPSF calculations in most scenarios.