Are they worth the monthly payments to gain access to Investor Names? 

Take a look at BP's blog where new articles are published every day: https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog4.

Which is better in my situation - doing repairs myself (possibly $50k) and increase the likelihood of selling (not incurring holding cost of interest on HELOC and PITI on 30 yr/mortgage).

This set of circumstances is very understandable. 

@Jeff Knorr did this ever get resolved?

What made you interested in investing in this type of deal?

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In my opinion, this is much more effective than texting, which often feels like a constant game of cat and mouse with phone carriers.

So my question to all of you is this....

Do keep in mind, we are not approaching this from a purely investment standpoint.