Check with several agents til you start to develope a consensus and a feel for the area.Don't rush and don't get emotionally involved in the transaction.

My partner had a 660 to start, which isn't great but was the min FICO for the loan program.

I would say a good real estate attorney needs to get involved with this one...

Or, “So, what do you do all day”… Or, “It must be nice getting those big checks”… funny the things they perceive to be what is involved…They don’t see me writing fat checks all the time to make things go, or spend nights and weekends working, firing contractors, all of the things it takes to be successful.

i didn't follow up as i chose not to pursue the property.i work for a lender and they apparently still do loans as low as $30k, but i'm an employee so their programs are different.my thought is that if it is in an area w/low values, someone has to be out there lending.my advice is to get in touch w/a great local mortgage broker.

Iam working on lease option programs in SD..

However, my new problem is that my job involves traveling away from home for 1-5 weeks at a time, and then only being home for 1-2 weeks, so this is going to add a challenge, but I'm going to try to figure it out as I go.

I would also look in to the state and fderal funding programs.

Most of them try to sell ther packages by making people believe that they can become multi-millionaires in a very short time period without doing any work at all.So now that you've figured out that it is a lie and that actually there is a great deal of time and work involved in real estate, stop trying to get your millions without working and get to work and put some time and effort in.I don't think real estate is hard.

Even if lenders work out programs, or Hillary freezes foreclosures for 90 days (whatever that means), it will only affect a subset of the people in trouble.