You could always go private money if you -really- want to go there, but if you are "new to the game", then I'd heavily advise you against brand new construction without either a construction or engineering background or if you are heavily banked.At 80-100k equity, you could turn that into 135-170k of buying power with bank financing at around 60% LTV (I'd be conservative if this was your first time going at it to make sure you will cashflow and establish that to keep working with your banks).

My exit strategy play is to whole sale this property. 

Short sales, Reo and handy man special.

Their processes are drawn out and not only could you pay 30% plus it will take you 30% plus longer to complete your project based on their (both big box stores) installed sales processes. 

By placing a ghost ad(fake ad) for a property you have for sale on Craigslist.

Mine was a flip turn key property so with these new lower sales and the quicker relocation than I was expecting I would lose 15k just on sale price plus have to take a huge credit hit and lose my VA benefits.

Do not cut any corners on a prospective deal to make it look better.Always do the math analysis and try to look at the prospective property before you submit an offer or at least have a clause in the sales contract that allows you some time (about 10 days) to make a detailed inspection without having a penalty that will hurt you too much.  

You can check on Zillow for recent sold properties, and see the price of the previous sale in the last 10 years.

Isn't this part of evaluating the comparable sales? 

Visit the complexes, look at units offered for sale and meet the people that live there.