I once pulled out a Blue Book appraisal to show a dealer what they should be offering me...

As far as financing, it makes it harder, not easier.If you are doing flips you will want a different entity from your buy and hold, so that the IRS doesn't consider your buy and holds to be owned by a dealer.

Hello,Relative has a stand alone NN property (drug store - national tenant) and lease is currently being renegotiated.

The neighbor also said she was selling drugs.

Either way, nobody is immune to drug dealers in a building...

Many of the homes are in run down shape and yes as i looked i saw it all from beer cans every where and not working toilets to houses completely not level as much as 5 inches... to bongs and drugs left every where.

Bill Gulley a lawyer I once talked to said it is good to do flips in a C-Corp because you avoide something called "trader or dealer" status.

The part I don't like is talking to co-workers or others I may have to interact with in the future and giving the impression I'm going to pull a rabbit out of a hat and solve their problem or one of someone they care about.Getting excited doesn't help.This is no deal and let's face reality, you're in no position to be "helping" taking on risks with a really thin deal that is more charity work than investing/dealer operations.

Even when I bought my first new car, I was turned down by two car brands & dealers for not enough credit, as I was leaving the last one feeling down I pasted by a dealership that I didn't notice before that had a sale on leftover new pickups.

Turned out to be owners son whom was a drug addict.