How do you look up homes that become vacant here in Norfolk the city of Norfolk department of public health - Bureau of environmental health will put a notice of violation on your door if your home is unfit to live in or not kept up with so shouldn’t there be public records on this info?

We’ll be registering our LLC in KY any day now.we already have a business account setup; and we already have several connections for contractors and realtors (for the first flip we’ll do much work ourselves, as we’re both pretty handy). 

We found several small multi family buildings (2 triplexes and a duplex) on the MLS.

I have to say that the experience has been positive so far, with a few negative items such as the evolution of home prices and how expensive has become living on this state.At some point during this period I had a complicated health issue and I ended up getting into a lot of debt to pay for my medical bills.

I’d tell you to try and partner with someone else but that too is a challenge if you don’t have several years of experience.Try and save $5000 up and get a few good friends to save $5000.

He would not be paying the bills but his 90 year old mother, who lives several states away, would be paying all of the bills.

We have gotten probably a dozen or so requests to tour the property -- several showed up, others never did. 

Several more visits revealed that the dog lived there.

So here's what I got; I owe $107,000 on my home, on the assessors website it shows a value of $144,000, I've talked to several banks to get rates on a HELOC and I found one bank that will do 85% LTV which comes up to about $15,000 for a HELOC.

There appears to be several good groups around too.