so with the farm - are you in the business or do you have alternate plans for the land?

Too many groupies trying to recruit.If you have not spent large sums with them hold off until you hear about the alternative (keeping your money in your pocket and learning almost for free).John Corey

I'm considering Bill Bronchick's "Alternative Real Estate Financing" course partly because of the recommendation of John Corey, whose opinion I value.

After the auction if a bank buys the property back you can always make an offer to them and get a loan... but in these cases the bank will hold out for more money whereas in a short sale situation you can more easily negotiate for a lower price.As an alternative to getting a loan for youself you can offer to buy a house "subject to" the original loan.

I tell all my staff that they need to be thinking about building additional or alternative streams of revenue to help them in retirement.  

As our smart BP community has recommended there are alternatives to the Government policies called "private flood insurance".

Not sure if you've run a marathon, but what I've found (and what the science tells us) is that the further you go over a marathon, the less like a marathon it becomes - mostly because the predictive value of VO2 Max breaks down and there hasn't been a good alternative developed to predict times. 

Its definitely more difficult and probably impossible in the popular and rapidly gentrifying areas though.I'd say your best balanced area to look in general is the SW side of the city.

This has never been common and it’s even less common today because the Mexican real estate market is red hot in the most popular places.Beware of what I call fake developer financing.

I used to visit a popular REI site years ago and this was, along with the 'how-to articles', the most popular area on the site for new investors.Just a suggestion.