Everyone has heard of the Federal Reserve "Stress Test" for large Wall Street banks, but many of the same principles apply to us as real estate investors. 

A smaller number of premium turnkey providers will hold your hand from beginning to end and provide post-closing support.  

The FHA qualified inspector will note certain things mentioned above like peeling paint, missing HVAC, broken windows, cracks in walls indicating possible structural, worn out roof etc.Yes...you can do an FHA 203K....I did that on my first house.  

They did make it a point to say that the website would support mobile accessing and having continued to research it seems like a reasonable deal particularly in that it's even cheaper after the first 12 months.

Spend time with your family and wife, support them and stop crying.  

Said he would reduce it to 50k (before he knew about the basement issue) Basement wall/footing needs replacement (quoted out at 17k) before any remodeling can occur.

Painting: $1,500 to $3,000 hired out on a 3 bedroom, 8 room house 2 story, includes wall prep.

Backyard noise can sometimes be reduced with a fence and high covering plants.Also see if the DOT has plans to put in noise walls along the highways for the houses that are close by.

It's a calculated decision based on at what stage and condition the building is in.For retail if there are no demising walls yet and it's in a cold dark exterior shell condition the all in costs for putting in walls could be 35 to 40 per sq ft with plumbing and ceilings etc.If you have demising walls already could drop to 25 to 30 a sq ft.

Will the neighborhood support vinyl?