@AJ Felix 70802 is neck & neck with one other zip code for the highest crime area in the city. 

The house is located in Great Neck, Long island area.

Big burly guys that drive jacked up 4x4s, have neck tats and chew tobacco for breakfast.

Replace the water heater with a tankless for $3,200 and then pay to have a roofing company remove the chimney neck and roof over the chimney (waiting on quote)What's everyone's thoughts?

And if you do seek to work for such contractors, even as a lowly laborer, fetch-n-carry grunt, earth digger with a shovel; then please start working out in a gym so you have the muscle mass & stamina to give an honest day's work to you employer, & you don't end up getting fired.

At least in my neck of the woods here in Lancaster County, PA.

You build your deal finding/negotiating muscles and you meet a lot of people. 

Especially in this neck of the woods! 

When you are ready and get back on your feet I recommend househacking a duplex in your neck of the woods using fha loan.

They come with their own set of pros and cons and can get less comfortable once you have family etc.Coming back to Covid-19, I frankly was amused by how brokers (including on BP) 4 - 5 states away fromSF or NYC got all excited by the remote work trend thinking that they are about to hit gold as these people with deep pockets will now move to their neck of woods.