Brian Jordan (The Property Shop/Hometown Property Solutions & Hometown Home Buyers). 

Just starting out up in Lake Arrowhead, California I got a lead on a Condo in  the Lake Arrowhead Village 5 min walk from the Lake and located in the middle of all the shopping and dinning.

Amazon is where America shops and they now incentivize every single customer to BEGIN their RE transaction in Amazon's ecosystem (people love free junk).

If your lender doesn't have the experience or expertise in a specific subject that you need I suggest you try shopping around or reaching out to other more seasoned experts on the topic. 

Hi Lisa,So move the HAM equipment to your basement and list it on Ebay...Most old HAM equipment I don't think is very valuable in a pawn shop, and people will already know its in the original house from the HUGE antenna outside.Plus a lot of that stuff has a serial number on it.Good Luck!

@Courtney Benson here is a graph showing home values in Estabrook Park calculated from data obtained from the American community survey. 

Coffee shops, quick gifts,  gas stations I would suspect.   

Im shopping now and getting quotes of 90% LTV, but my motivation is mainly getting a better lender with a modernized way of making payments.

As usual there wasn't much of interest on the mls when I was "window shopping" and I was finding it extremely difficult to find any owner info via my normal approaches of GIS and county assessor searches.

It's in a desirable location, gated community + HOA amenities, great school district, and within walking distance to parks, coffee shops, etc.