Lot and a half, on a corner, no trees on the lot, no trees in front to block the endless sunsets and moonrises. 2700 sq. feet of cinder block contruction with 2600 sq. feet of pavers, two Central AC units, one is for the 800 sq. foot Den and Sunroom with half bath and inside storage room with all the utilities including sprinkler control.

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Here are the numbers:BYERS AVEPurchase Price: $231,000Purchase Closing Costs: $6,800Renovation Budget: $39,000Holding/Financing Budget: $13,000Staging/Clean-up: $2,800Commission/Closing: $15,000Sale Price: $315,000Total Profit: $7,400I should end up holding this house for about 3 months (1 ½ months for rehab and 1 ½ months on the market before we close).Moving on From Here-On the Byers Ave house, I have the foundation and some trees that were causing the foundation issues taken care of.

Or am I missing the forest trough the trees, is there a simpler way to work with the family to buy the property and resolve the outstanding liens another way?

Deferred maintenance is addressed (trees over house, old fences, external storage buildings, walk ways, etc).  

Nowadays you will just have to work and look harder for them.Back in the day, the 1% deals would fall off tree's in Toledo.It's tougher now for sure.Pick a market and your niche.Look at tertiary markets in the Midwest where there aren't many cowboys in town lolI've always loved Ohio, Michigan and Indiana...Learn the market inside and out.Negotiate hard and have cash to close quick.Be quick.Just bought one not to long ago in a B- class area of Toledo for $40,000, needs around $10,000 in rehab and ARV is $80,000+3 bed, 1 bathRent will be $900pm easy peasy.Wishing you much success

Researching the family tree of my investors would reveal a lot of BP DNA. 

I've seen one outlier at $50K due to extensive tree removal and the need to truck a lot of soil in for a mounded system.If you have town sewer, that zinger is off the table.My guess (with very little to go on) is that you're grossly overestimating rehab costs. 

I've had good luck using public records to find the owners of my #1 batch of mailers from April for about 20 vacant homes... and I was able to scrape the internet, Google, Facebook, Nuwber, 411, and some family tree websites for their current addresses (and some phone numbers) to send them letters.This round for my May marketing letters, I found 49 vacant houses on Sunday and I've spent TOO MUCH time this week looking for the owners.

But overall it was a surreal experience to see the land transform from trees to completely built out with our first tenants moved in.