I know roughly what the arv will be but will need to have access to the property to determine cost of repairs.

Not always but it helps.Buying at lower prices per door tends to be older buildings requiring constant repairs which is why scale is needed.

You're trying to buy wholesale, in an open retail market, that all buyers already have access to.  

Regardless, it still needs to be fixed, and depending on accessibility may require cutting out some drywall and re-patching.

., vendors may not stock 14' long dimensional lumber, so they'll substitute 16').3) Since lumber is a commodity, prices fluctuate constantly.

It dictates every element of REI including your rehab.Every strategy has a market it works well in, that can be accessed by every REI.  

In this case, since they had access to free suitable soil, the excavated down some 18' to good ground (turns out the spot where the house was placed was a spoils pit at some point past) and placed compacted lifts of suitable soil to get it back to the intended elevation.  

You will not have access to the MLS, in most places, and may have a hard time finding forms for the sale of property.  

I have unlimited access to money,  it's just about finding the right deal and that seems to be the hard part the last year and a half doing real estate.  

Anyone who has bought a lot of HUD homes in the past knows how valuable the info can beI cannot tag him but Mark Ferguson, as a HUD broker do you have access to the HUD appraisal anymore ?