I’ve been trying to analyze listings on the usual sites and what I receive from a real estate agent.

What I find is that the banks just want too much money for houses that need too much rehab.Is there some way other investors are getting access to properties that aren't on the MLS, or these common sites I mentioned? 

If you want to do it on your own you will need to use those sorts of sites.

If the place was performing you could likely go commercial. 

They were blaming it on a snow storm in December and sicknesses in January.Issue 4: After tenant (from issue 3) vacated; they performed a walkthrough and told me things that the tenant broke (laundry door, punched a hole in the wall, the usual). 

BiggerPockets is a great site to get started learning about real estate investing.

Hello,I am wondering what the best strategy is for putting the optimal amount of money down on a single family home with the intent to perform light rehab to buy and hold.

It seems like a decent prospect for appreciation and cashflow since it's situated between JHU and Penn Station and is the site of a fairly substantial development project (Telesis), but I understand the strength of the deal will be determined by what price and condition I acquire the property at. 

In our discussion he is ready to sell that house and then he tells me he has 25 properties (I had already seen that on the Tax Assessors site) and he said he would like to sell all of the properties.

Garage work was performed although no receipt was provided therefore I cannot validate if the work was performed by a licensed professional.Does the sellers agent make a valid case in keeping my earnest money?