Our issue is income on papers too low to qualify for the an FHA or traditional loan.

If a storm happens immediately after you replace the roof, the actual cash value is the same as replacement cost, so you've lost nothing.The only thing you would have to worry about are items you did not intend to repair

If you are open to non-traditional methods of financing, you could use a debt service loan to bypass that requirement.

This is true for bonus depreciation items as well.  

This will give you one critical piece of information, that it may take X days to get an offer and sell, and the second item will give you what your competition is right now.

Focus on the big-ticket items and estimate costs.Financing: Whether it's private money, hard money loans, or a traditional lender, make sure your financing is lined up.

Often times they come back with a list of repairs that they would like to see to protect the home or mitigate liability. 90% of the time those items were on our list to fix anyway, and sometimes we even haven't done before we get the letter from the insurance company.

I’ve had many clients do a traditional 1031 and then they feel like they have a gun to their head with the shot clock.  

Major brands like Ritz Carlton and Waldorf Astoria are currently developing property there, where they have traditionally developed in Miami, Fort Laud, and Palm Beach. 

Dan, Investment HELOCS are extremely hard to achieve considering they are not DSCR underwrites. they are more traditional conventional qualifications.