Looking to start diving into the cold calling/knocking game.

I was 23 and excited to buy a house fore me and my recently married wife.

Any thoughts on how to go about this?

Take a look at BP's blog where new articles are published every day: https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog4.

If the first is foreclosing, are you prepared to pay off the first and bid at auction to protect your interest?

Hey I’m 17, living in the US and I’m trying to learn about real estate investing, what are the steps in this business, what’s the best way to go about it and I think a discord would be really helpful for me to understand.

I inherited a home on the Westbank and I am slowly beginning to renovate it, as I start an new career with Tulane college. 

I will try to post one of these every now and then for analysis purposes.

the house has a bunch of equity, being worth about 750k when fixed up.I  know that on a standard convenetional mortagage foreclosure, there usually additional fees such as unpaid interest, attorney fees etc, apart of the princiapl balance.Is there a way to conservatively assess what will be the actuall "Pay-off" on the 1st?

I can't speak for Tampa, but back in the day for Los Angeles County there was a minimum bid at the auction at the courthouse steps and then it went up from there.