Your best bet is to talk to a wide variety of lenders and give them your scenario. 

You could do a quick google search for any of these terms like "top cities for population growth in 2020" and find a variety of lists and see where any of your options fall on the list. 

Maybe the curtains, ceiling, cabinets, baseboard and trim, or a variety of places.You could try running an ozone generator to see if that helps.

I think these are way less scary than the pier and beam variety, but maybe that is just me.You then have to let the house settle for some period of time before you really set about your renovations, but you can still use the time to rip out old stuff, get your materials ordered, and gather bids from contractors - all things you'll need to do anyway.

It was beautiful, deep, concrete lined, lots of fish, big circulation pump, leaf strainer etc and it was a lot of work and studying a variety of stuff.

You could work in the industry in a wide variety of positions and learn from some big dogs.

I have underwritten and evaluated a variety of broken deals in the past.

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There are a variety of possible scenarios and you will never know until you ask. 

Talking to a variety of lenders would definitely be a good start and gaining knowledge based off the ones who specialize in what you're looking for.