Don't risk that road, get licensed insured workers ALWAYS.

I have made a few posts regarding my intentions down the road through real estate investing.

The roads get plowed and sanded real quick, but sometimes you can't get out of your own driveway.

Down the road the property will be appraised to payoff the loan and 10% on the price in a short term financed deal will be hard to meet the future LTV.

Then create a road map that matches.

I've been down that road already and lost a ton.

If you have the cash reserves working a few short sales now could set you up with a few deals down the road from now, which would be a good thing, but the fact that you do not know exactly what is going on makes that difficult.You have a couple other options:1)You can start looking for off MLS properties.

My prop mgr is telling me that they should be poly'd, or else they'll peel or chip, and will fail Section 8 inspections down the road.

After 18 months on the road, I'm back in my home town to work on my new "life plan".Here's my situation: I have $80k in cash that I'm willing to invest in real estate, around 75% of my total net worth.

Sending some newbie down the road with really REALLY advanced styles of doing something will only end up with them smashing into a major problem.