Purchase price: $195,000 Cash invested: $60,000 Sale price: $282,000 Live and flip property initially purchased with the intention of buy and hold but change strategy to learn more about rehab.

You have initially asked if they intend to renew but they said they are thinking about it. 

The contractor mentioned the roof and HVAC looked old, but he wasn’t sure they actually needed to be replaced yet.My question is: Should I leave these items out of my initial offer and adjust later based on the inspection results, or should I assume upfront that they’ll need replacing and build that into my first offer?

Priorities initially are wholesaling, and then acquiring property to fix and flip or turn into STRs.

The bank would lose their $ on a deal after you lost all of the equity in the form of the initial down payment.

All in all the distributions were paid slightly lower than initially expected while the remaining is accrued. 

Every deal is different, but I've found that sellers who are willing to offer financing love these deals -- though they can be hard to find and difficult to initially convince a seller to do if they weren't previously familiar with the strategy.  

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You also can get rates lower than 6.50% right now and you can also elect to take a 40 year or I/O interest Only for the first -3 years to help maximize the initial cash flow.

But licensing,zoning,insuring, owning and operating one are a different story.This is what my initial plan is (This is all in theory) To enter a new buyer program to purchase our first home using both of our tax return dollars.