If you can't manage what you currently have, you won't manage additional income from investments.

If so that's a big additional risk for the buyer.

Down payment should be about the same (20% on a buy-and-hold) but you'll see an additional $3-$6k on average in CC and the ability to keep it off of your DTI/Personal credit along with hopefully no more hard inquiries on your credit (many lenders will accept/perform a soft pull).

In addition to submitting your documentation I'd get a plumber to state in writing that the windows being left open is what caused the pipes to freeze.

You can easily find this online but I will message you directly with some additional info. 

You may borrow an additional $35000 for hard cost improvements.

No additional analysis or criteria considered.  

It seems like there are additional obstacles to success for me since I'll have to do pretty much everything remotely, but an expression that I like, and I'm paraphrasing here, "If the path you're on seems easy, you're on the wrong path"Would love any and all advice, guidance, comments, warnings or whatever else you'd like to share.

I wouldn't suggest you buy a single-family home to live in because the additional cost outweighs the benefits.

You divide that $20k by .075 and you get a boost of $260k to the valuation.Allowing you to take the property back to the bank, get a new loan with $208k of additional debt on the property, pay yourself back that investment and now you have enough cash to buy a $1M deal and use that strategy over and over while scaling exponentially.