If they default you can take over the asset but now you are in charge of completing the renovations. 30,000 foot overview but captures the good and bad points of each.

.- Chip away existing insufficient footing to pier edge.- Install reinforced steel rebar into base of the column.- Pour new footer and reinforce with concrete and rebar per engineering report.- Backfill soil around each footer.- Dig around 7 exposed deck footers and reinforce, dig 2 feet and apply rebar, pour concrete and replace old footers.

It's about a foot tall.  

What size do the footings of the porch need to be (porch rests on soil, not sand or gravel)?

.- I wonder if going and investing in OKC would be a better strategy, Oklahoma is also up in many lists for investment properties and taxes are way lower, although job growth may not be as robust as here.

However as a family takes foot hold and more water and paper start being used that's when the problem surfaces.

I think that's about $13 a square foot.

I've at least got a pre-approval letter from a mortgage broker so I'll use that to at least get my foot in the door, then hopefully when I have a good deal under contract I can try to use the deal as a tool to get investors/OPM.

I typically will first take a 30,000 foot view and search zillow or realtor.com for recently sold listings that are similar to my property.

@Yogev Finegoz you may want to consider new construction, I have a builder I work with that construction cost are around 70ish a sq foot.