Depends on the kind of neighbor you want to be. 1) Play hard ball and wait until you get a small claims court summons, then offer to settle for cash (for that small amount I wouldn't get insurance envolved) 2) Offer to pay all or part of the cost of repair to make it go away.

I did a lot of different things before settling on my niche of mobile home investing.

Just make sure you have a  long pointed conversation about it when its time to settle up. 

So then at the very last minute, they start calling around and find out that a lot of GC's want nothing to do with a 203k, so they end up settling for a third rate GC as they are now under contract and they end up being very difficult to work with because they don't want to provide you the documentation, nor can they prepare the work order the way HUD wants it. 

In my experience, much better to wait or lend to yourself via one of your entities to minimize the seasoning than settle for a commercial loan. 

I’m now ready to settle down and want to get back into doing work on a house and dipping my toes into landlording through househacking.

There are many concerns here, and restrictions that vary by company based on the age and renovation history of a property.Valuation method: Actual Cash Value will deduct depreciation over time from your claim settle (which can be thousands of dollars), while Replacement Cost Value will not deduct depreciation, and will almost always result in a claim settlement being larger by several thousand dollars.Theft Coverage: How does your policy handle theft claims?

I just hired a escrow company, buyer and me settled on price and terms, and escrow company took care of everything.

I have some health issues flaring up this week that make me unable to reliably sit and focus so I would be afraid to waste your time right now (I started writing this message yesterday for example and suddenly had to go lay down before I could finish).I would love to take you up on that though once my health stuff hopefully settles down again.The quote about the quitclaim deed was a website where the county lists the properties for sale, not actually on the Ada county website (I don't think I ever saw the word "quitclaim" on the Ada County site) - but I did find on the Canyon County (right next door to Ada county, I actually live in Canyon):"For each property sold, the County will transfer its interest by quitclaim deed without warranty or representation."  

Here are the basics of the deal:Buyers are asking $59,000ARV is ~$100,000Repair estimate is just shy of $25,000We settled on a cash offer at $40,000The buyer is gun shy and does not want to deal with counters after inspections etc.