Ive found a place (duplex) to house hack hack that I would like to buy. 

Show them the house get a feel for them.

Stick to <65% LTV's: in all of the recessions, including the great financial crises, housing prices have never declined more than 30%. 65% is a staple number for most hardmoney lenders for this reason. 3.

The house on one side is nearly 500k and the house on the other side is about 700k.

I found it really time consuming to measure for every single repair in a house so automated calcs as much as I could based on room sizes.  

I'm in the same boat - looking to take all of my property management in-house.

Thank youCash flow is gonna be very difficult if not impossible in Frederick county, you might find some cash flow in Hagerstown, though the most housing stock is just utter **** inside the city, I’d look to buy like in halfway or something where at least the housing stock is decent.

We plan on house hacking it so it will set up the next deal and so on.

And no, the attorney can't broker the sale of the property.It's very simple, if you want to buy a house in foreclosure prior to the auction you MUST deal directly with homeowner.

For example, you can buy a $50,000 house that will rent for $1,000 a month, but it will also experience significant tenant problems, expensive turnovers, long vacancies, and other costly problems.