You have to be on the City Council, part of the school board, on the chamber of commerce, a supporter of the fire department, etc., etc. 

If not, and the neighborhood supports it, I'd fix that and then do a complete refresh and see if you can rent it at a higher amount.

Hey everyone, what a great community of supporters.

I paid the $2000 for the course and now here I am just trying to build a network of support and to learn all that I can.  

This brought us to one of the seminars that cost of $2000 to attend and then they talked us into $20K program that sounded like we would be getting a good amount of support.

@Mark HoffmanWelcome to the BP family, you will find loads of support here for your real estate endeavors.

Don't ask me how this person was still in there house cause i have no clue, but anyway the bank filed a lis/pendens vs the homeowner back in 08' long story short i found out that property had (a high) child support lien on it so i decided to bail on the sheriff sale and sit back and figured the back would take it at auction.

My family has been here for multiple generations and has always been very involved in the area, including on the real estate front, so I have deep roots in and love for the place, and come by my interest in real estate honestly :-) Professionally, I'm an interior designer specializing in high end residential design for successful, busy professionals, and aging-in-place/universal/accessible design, for those who either need it now or (preferably) want to plan ahead, just in case, knowing that at least 68% of us will be disabled in some way eventually, or who know they have some health issues for which they know they will eventually need to make some modifications to their homes if they want to continue to live there. 

Also would like to connect with other commercial brokers who sell multifamily or hotels in the top 25 MSA's.I am in the process of buying my first investment property up near the University of Central Florida, my brother in law and I are going 50/50 on the downpayment and we will be doing student housing rentals.

Finding purpose and support for those involved that have "been there, done that" is the most challenging aspect.