It's only a stepping stone to break free.While you are slaving, eat ramen, roommate up or live in trailer, avoid Starbucks and tuck every dollar you can squeeze out into a bank account. need 20% down and money for materials. so for 80K home (trashed), you will want 35K banked to get started, just a rough idea.Then, get pre-approved.

If you have a downpayment, cash to close, and a pre-approval it should not be hard to find an agent to help you and protect you.

I’m pre approved for 170k loan but looking for a place around 80-120k I don’t want my mortgage to take over my life.

1) The house is listed for sale on the MLS and it's "short sale listing approved by bank" leaves no deal.This ultimately doesn't mean anything, as whatever offer you submit will need to be approved by the Bank *unless* you're doing a full price offer.2) The first lien holder, which is a FHA loan, is for foreclosing and the sale date is set for about 3 months from now.

use of them puts the responsibility on a third party.If the approval came from her doctor and not a mail order service based service animal approving site, PetScreening.com will approve the animal and you will have to allow it. 

@Jonathan GreeneAlready been pre approved for 350k and have another 100k sitting in the bank, and have 3 different agents.

- Most HMLs can provide a lightly-worded pre-approval letter based on data from a preliminary application. 

(The reason I would like to build is that in the market I've been looking a 90's 6bed 3bath 2 car duplex is selling for 280-290$)Keeping the remained to either pay off debt or go to auction to look for the next fixer upper. 

You will need to qualify and gain approval from the lender.

They also sub-leased without approval and those individuals never ended up paying me either.