You have read numerous books and are looking for assistance on BP forums as well. 2.

I believe the creator of the thread was a female, and it had numerous formulas and such.

Within the School District, there are numerous schools.For Instance School District X contains: Green High School Rolling Meadows High School Windbreeze Elementary Rockwall MiddleSchool Mineral Wells High School etcLets use a hypothetical subject property for an example.

Beyond all of the great advice you received numerous members here have discussed strategies to have the seller finance part of the downpayment 

Not sure how WI sees a CFD, but since the buyer is never in title, building permits can be an issue, contractors and material suppliers may be limited in their ability to place liens on a property with debts incurred by someone who is not in title.Your assumption that you must have 20% down for seller financing isn't correct, besides, the same equity argument could be made for any installment contract.The seller could finance 100%.

There are numerous clauses specified, and which they signed off on, regarding certain breeches that result in the loss of the deposit. 

I can see myself that there are numerous code violations, but from reading a post regarding intermittent power outages to certain outlets, it looks like I need to have the electric company come check their end.So, 1) would the electric company cause me and problems regarding the code violations,2) how can I use this to my advantage in the sales negotiations, and,3) I can do some of the interior writing, but what kind of bucks will I be looking at to replace the box?

I have purchased numerous short sales and had to bypass the commission on the deal each time or I used one of my agents in the office as the one representing me and they made the commission.

It's just a property they have available so I'm just doing my own research to see if it might be a good buy.I've read numerous posts on this forum as well as other articles touting the "up and coming" status of Phily, but I'm concerned about crime and some of the neighborhoods.

All of our purchases have been MLS listings, so we could have found them on line at numerous websites, and that was how we started.