Neither the listing agent nor Fannie Mae can tell me whether or not the home has to be raised or just need to be leveled, even though the home next door was supposedly condemned and will need to be knocked down.

It it hasn't been 90-180 days, then you don't have enough numbers and time to evaluate and make a change.5) Have you ever considered to door knock a neighborhood you have interest in?  

Its not like it was in the Northwest when export logs were 1k per 1MBF but there are still those plays to be made all over the US.. take that degree and knock it out of the park. !!!  

Finally after 6 months I have my license and will start training tomorrow before I go out and door knock around the greater city of Los Angeles!

That seller refused to adjust their price to reflect the unexpected costs, so we walked.We've started talking about possibly purchasing the property with the house and renting it out for a few years before knocking it down and building our personal residence.  

I've heard of people knocking on doors and ask if they want to sell.

They knock you off your feet with the outrageous shows and freebies with the intent of getting you to make emotional decisions and spend lots of money...

Otherwise what you can try is simply knocking on the neighbors doors and asking them what they know about it.  

Hopefully one day their "students" will file a class action law suit against hgtv, and make them knock it off with all these fictional flipping shows that so many are using as their business plan.

And of course the ace up my sleeve is that I'm actually willing to knock off another 50k of my equity if that's what it takes to get the deal done and me my money.