Literally every time I’ve tried it I got burnt or lost money .

Another property a tenant broke literally every window in the house when I evicted them.

Sometimes you just need a camera and an experienced plumber, though.Paul, tree roots can be from trees over 30 feet from the sewer line, the roots search out water supply and will enter the pipes and literally stop the flow of everything inside, there are many methods of cleaning the interior of a sewer line, one I liked a lot is the high pressure water cleaning, scaling is not the problem I changed a main sewer line for a customer after the cast iron was broken and literally stopped all flow of the line, this is an extreme case, one that I never encountered in over 24 years of being involved in the industry of housing and construction, many will try to sell you a big repair in order to make a big dollar, personally I would want to do a complete video inspection showing the entire run all the way out to the street main, I would want to be present and take pictures then if want to post the pictures I can better understand the exact nature of the problem and give a professional unbiased opinion, I have seen it all in my industry, one part of me is almost jealous of the companies that sell people big ticket items when in fact it is factually unwarranted but I am not in the business of stealing peoples hard earned money under false pretenses.  

I also had some help from a very good investor and friend, who literally saved my a*** by recommending reliable and cost efficient contractors.

Since I literally can't fully understand who is involved in this situation from reading your post I would just stay out of it.

What that means, is once you close on the property, because the existing note is still in place... but the property has been Sold, the bank has the ability to literally call the note due & force the buyer (us) to pay off the full existing balance of the note ($365k).

I have been working on it literally for two days after learning as much as I can about this business.

The only type of property I know of where it's generally 10% down is for a "second home"...this is not an investment property but literally your second home.I recommend you get actively involved in local area REIAs.

Had another brrrr back up plan so called on that today and sold to someone else literally this morning ..rough start to this investing thing but I’ll keep learning and trying!

This question has been asked and answered literally 000s of times.