So it may end up costing you $400k within 30-60 days without any financing options.How do people overcome this when you do your due diligence?

The first couple is a no-brainer.The second group has too many people, increasing wear-and-tear on the home.

It is a lot easier IMO this way than chasing people for your fee. 

People also love the back deck with the string lights and a nice seating area. 

You can also find many examples in the forums of people experiencing poor valuations due to lack of comps.

Basically you can't have the yard be higher than 6 inches below the window sill (otherwise it would v difficult for people to exit out of this window in case of an emergency). 

I host a group for midterm rental operators and I had 2 people in last week's meeting essentially say the same thing.

BP has built a great selection, all of them worth reading and that will help you build foundational knowledge.To answer this one: the words from old school investor Dolf De Roos "seldom sell" and you will find a lot of post on BP from people who regret selling properties in the past.

Would help if you stated what questions you had so people could reply right away.I have knowledge on HELOANs but not direct experience.

Knob and tube has more negatives than most people think, As a GC doing lots of remodels in a old beach town, we replaced a ton of these.