We received some heavy rainfall this past winter, and now I have leakage around my chimney.  I anticipate that it could cost $5000 to fix and I'm questioning whether to take the insurance claim (deductible is $2500). ...

Just wondering if attending is worth while. 

While that is definitely not right, it may be worthwhile to just accept it to get the deal closed. 1% is probably fairly insignificant in the grand scheme of things.It's tough to do, but sometimes you have to ask yourself "Do I want to be right, or do I want to be rich?"

I personally think owning properties in an LLC is important enough to make the added costs worthwhile, for me anyway, and insurance is never a substitute, but again, if you don't have a ton in the way of assets yet, you may have different priorities.

So conventional financing is out of the question currently so I've been listening to podcasts, about 6-8 hours worth while I'm working at night.

The listed price is almost entirely irrelevant to what the property is worth. While

I'm not super familiar with the Fort Worth market, but to make this deal worthwhile I'd imagine it needs to either be a flip (in other words, single familiy) or really in the heart of the most desirable part of town.

Knowing this is a C++ neighborhood do you think it would be worthwhile buying the land at discount after current owner bulldozes and clears them try to sell just the land for a few extra bucks?

Actially, I have some packing, moving and various odd jobs I need done at my house, but when I looked up Amherst, you are a little more than an hour away, so I am probably too far away to make it worthwhile.

I'm having a hell of a time finding anything worthwhile.