It must be harder than usual to find motivated sellers as Power of Sale and banks selling for fair market value definitely have their effect on the market for motivated sellers.

Then they will run out of money and fizzle.A similar effect occurred when Zillow entered the market.

Then look for local chapters and associates list in your area the property is in.The assessment needs to be if residential use can you tear down the building and build new or rehab the building effectively on it's own??

I would not mind getting my feet wet in personal real estate investments so I could be an effective real estate attorney, but I would like to try and learn to be successful at both Flip and Fix and Buy and Hold.Do people tend to specialize in one type of transaction or another?

Mini blinds are pretty cost effective.

For option to be effective an option price must be paid.An option term may expire on a scheduled rate over a term.

What effects would a change to commercial bring?

The cinder block turned my original 1 month timeline into 3 months, however it didn't effect my budget, obviously time is money so it did have an effect on my bottom line with the extra holding but I didn't come out of pocket any more then what I budgeted.I had no extra money to come out of pocket so I learned how to rehab a cinder block house.

In the end, it's important to properly value your time, and it's generally not effective for you to be doing hands on rehab work. 

One thing that I find really interesting is the statement " i did not provide them notification of this problem, hence they couldn't do anything about it".I would love a transcript of that or something in writing to that effect.