Purchase price: $260,000 Cash invested: $120,000 Sale price: $535,000 Complete gut, new front and rear walls, all new electric, HVAC, plumbing, roof, deck, windows, interior What made you interested in investing in this type of deal?

Have a 27k mortgage balance, sale price est at 415k.

It is much more difficult to sell an entire portfolio that has become uninsurable (which would require a cash only sale) or that insurance rates are so high that no one wants to buy. 

What are the costs for the value adds, the expected hold time, and the expected sale price? 

You could force the seller to bring it up to code before the sale is complete as one of the contingencies of buying it, let them deal with it.

Househack properties in 2024 sold 1-2 weeks faster than they did in 2023.Deals are tougher to negotiate as well. 2 of NYC's surrounding Counties (Westchester & Suffolk) are averaging above asking price sales on 2-4 family properties. 

That is what exactly the sales person said.

I’m thinking 50k capital- Also- is there a tax lien sale to buy properties in Baltimore?

Cleveland, Baltimore, Toledo, Indy etc....You will see net population decreases in most of these areas but these are the areas where the prices are the lowest in the USA and come with rents that are very high when compared to the sales price.

It will depend on where you are doing your deals and what the liability is that follows you after a sale.