Already the BP community has been very valuable in helping me make decisions.

First to approve with acceptable terms gets to fund.Sorry to hear about your experience, though a good and valuable lesson was learned by you and anyone reading this.

I'll guess that several of those 24 are probably owned by the same entity so you can just send 1 letter to them.BTW my first move would be to contact the ones that are listed.They are the only ones indicating they actually want to sell their lots.You would be in a pretty strong negotiating position in my opinion since you can always use the "Why should I buy your lot when I can go talk to these other 5 guys with basically the same dirt as you do." argument.You also can point out that those 17 other lots have sold much lower (assuming that the listed ones are at much higher prices than these sold at) than they want, so why do they think that their dirt is so much more valuable?

They contain a great deal of fabulous valuable information and recommendations!

If none have, that might be a bad sign that people are not rehabbing homes in that area.If the house is vacant, I would try to negotiate the seller down a couple grand sign a contract on the spot with a 21 day inspection period and then get to work selling.Worst case is you cancel the contract and have learned a lot of valuable lessons.

I made some VALUABLE new contacts as I am sure others did as well.

I'd rather DIY myself than have some uninsured, potentially sketch guy off craigslist around valuables.

The great thing is that now you're able to appreciate true valuable information when you see it.

So far I haven't had someone just take me under their wing and shown me how to make a fortune but I've made valuable contacts that have come in handy.With some investors I bring potential deals and they give me their opinions and that has been valuable.

A lot of valuable insights from Real Estate Lawyers, Probate Lawyers, Residential Building Inspectors, Hard Money Lenders, Private Money Lenders, Insurance Providers, Title Companies, CPA's, and seasoned investors doing the full range of investor activities.