Also, find out if your city has code violations and eviction data online or otherwise available.

Aside from Biggerpockets (which is a great online resource no doubts there!)

Hi @Kendrick Smith...Welcome to to BP & the investing game! 

We track the foreclosure in the county's online court records system.

Even if you hired a designer as well you’d still save money versus paying the $50,000 .Searching listings online for homes that have sold as flips and see what kind of design they use or go to open houses of flipped homes .

What is your skin in the game upfront? 

If you can take a picture of the serial number and find the same TV online that will suffice.

Obviously, if someone wanted to know who owned the property it’s real easy to look up online, but at least there would be a buffer between tenants and us as “owners”.

Message a moderator or reply to the notice you got and they should reinstate your access.BP holds a pretty strict line or the forums will quickly get overrun with spam like most online forums.

We have a strong suspicion that the seller and her boyfriend have been playing games with everyone from the beginning, and I'm hoping our "playing hardball" called them out on it.