If you ask the manager to justify a fee and he starts hemming and hawing, move on or require them to remove the fee.

I would start there and think of anything that I could do to stay in the house for a while as it sounds like you would be losing a bit of money with the other options. 

Whether your at $0 or $10mm of personal cash to start with.   

If you just hire the cheapest or first PMC you speak with and it turns into a bad experience, please don’t assume ALL PMC’s are bad and start trashing PMC’s in general.

Typically starting with a smaller rehab budget of $50K or less (maybe a max of $75K) and avoiding a 1 to 1(or higher) ratio of purchase to rehab costs is recommend when you are first starting out. 

I'd say start the process of securing your HELOC if you havn't done so and spend time analyzing deals and determining what type of investor you are looking to be. 

Less than an hours work, everything online approved within a few days.I recently decided to stretch myself a bit and start putting my holdings into series LLCs. 

My name is Jenna and my husband and I are just starting to dip our toes into the real estate world!

We are looking into the possibility of starting out OOS investing in Indianapolis.

Right, @Karla Garcia but the trick in rehabbing is that you may think you know what needs to be done and how much it's going to cost until you start the process and then you knock down a wall and realize the whole house needs to be gutted!