This is a matter of being a product of ones environment. 

Other not so credible hard money lenders acquire them from investors like you that are under capitalized going into their deal, borrow too much money from the lender at terms that they find themselves unable to repay timely, and the lender forecloses on the property and the investor loses it.The beauty of the capitalist environment we all enjoy in the USA is that there are an abundance of different service providers in this hard money space, with a vast number of  different programs and terms available. 

We are currently living in an environment where the Realtor's lobby have managed to pass laws that are anti-competitive and because of that they have managed to keep the price of their services at a pretty high level.

Thanks for a conducive environment to learn and grow BP. 

Make use of your environment and what you have to survive.Regular items such as guns and knives are classified as  weapons and as such are not allowed in many venues around where you live.

On the second part about being fair-- nothing creates a better working environment then a fair customer and nice customer.

They use the same imagery, but Google Earth is a much more robust environment that gives you tons of additional information.One advantage of using Google Earth would be the ability to pull in more than one vendor's data for the same home, on a single map.  

If we take it back, we will rehab as two unit rental ($1400/month) if allowed by city, or rehab to single unit and relist for ~$89,900Is your auction environment one you can depend on to generate interest?  

That would help generate more ideas based on the local environment.

Strategies that have absolutes are often blind to their ever changing environment, like the rust belt states that never changed their main economical source of income from manufacturing.If an area is declining I would want to sell and get into an area that is increasing.