@John Pflederer Have you considered bringing a handyman on via some sort of retainer?

What sort of value are you looking at?

what sort of terms  are tied to these programs these days ?

They will usually attempt to contact the Broker first and motivate them to resolve the issue.

But don’t let the age fool you, I’m young and motivated!

I have recently decided that I want to learn and get involved in real estate, I am 19, in school at James Madison University and motivated to get going.

To make a long story short, the seller is definitely motivated, however, he's considering working with an agent because the agent said that their property would be worth about 250k (definitely makes sense for the area), therefore, that's the least he's willing to expect from it.

If anybody is in the Delaware, Philadelphia, SNJ area and is looking for distressed owners who are motivated to sell their property then perhaps we can make a deal!

Given the condition of the house, and knowledge that the current owner was motivated to sell, I was able to purchase the house for around $12,000 market value.How did you finance this deal?

You may want to consider buying each property individually with one or two investors and giving each of them some sort of active role if your intent is to go JV route.