We regularly loan to 75% and have done an occasional deal where they paid 78% (always minus expenses).

With the help from my wife, who has experience in interior design and an aspiration in home staging, we set a goal of obtaining several buy and hold multifamilies while simultaneously searching for occasional fix and flip properties.

I don't know if it has anything to do with your crash, but...On the forum the past few days I occasionally will open one or two topics that are formatted wrong...the threads do not start until below the left side nav bar.

My advice is that if you are the one screening the tenant and don't mind to come and change the occasional lightbulb, then section 8 could work for you.

In my area I'm finding most duplexes rent a bit below 1% as they are overpriced, with the occasional properties priced right to rent a bit over 1% (for example, one on the market now could get $1900 gross rents and is listed at $165k with new roof, ac, pipes, windows, etc). 2/2 rent is about $900-1050/mo and most duplexes are over $200k.

There is the occasional fixer home/cabin under $200K but also a pretty rare beast.

So this occasional sale is like a safety valve for the City to clear out the problem properties.Long story short: the seller paid no liens on the property after it came out of foreclosure.

I don't want to be sent to an agents website and forgotten with the occasional market analysis.  

we usually make our best and final to start but very occasionally will make a slight upward adjustment and one memorable time got annoyed, offered less, & bought the house.

Occasionally you get lucky and an owner's contact info is on the business docs.