I do know of a lot of people that travel there for dirt bike riding so if you are close enough to those areas you might be able to leverage that. 

You are starting a great adventure, enjoy the ride :)The community here is great if you need any support. 

If they don't care so much about big growth anymore and just want to enjoy cashflow, that's often when people will pay down the debt and just let the cash ride in.

This is another lesson: If someone is "being difficult" about everything in the beginning you are in for a rough ride.

If you feed and groom the horse, you will be in a position to learn about things before the Jockey who just rides the horse.Always try to get the information from the horses mouth.

You'll need a mortgage broker to carry back loans yourself..... you get an interest rate on your money, interest over ride on the loan, down payment and you get paid off at closing.....it's an option.You could go to a hml type, be prepaired to be fleeced in that price range, it's lost profits, but if it makes a deal work, you make more than the alternative, go see them....soe areas they aren't so bad.If you don't have experience, you might find some decent deals that need lipstick and the grass mowed and slowly get into more difficult projects.

Make sure that you take a ride after dark in the area where you are thinking on investing in.

So a big hail storm just came through town and shred a large part of the ciy with tennis to baseball size hail and 70+ mph winds.

I am trying to figure out if I win the bid on the house that this is the only cost I pay for the property and it gets transferred to my name or are there other ride along conditions I need to be aware of (I am new to auctions so trying to get a better idea)?

However, I agree with you that the AK market is probably in for a rough ride over the next year or so.