She doesn't want him to leave because he helps to take care of everything that his son never would, like picking the kids up from school, fixing things around the house, mowing the yard, and taking out the trash.

When your buying drives up if they can eaisly get to the building site by driving and not bush wacking it will help..

Everything went really well except for the fact that they sold the loan to a hedge fund before closing and the hedge fund's fees were added to the loanguys fees and it all added up quite a bit so I changed my mind at the closing table and used a private lender that is friends with the closing attorney. 

Would love to learn the process, but don't know how much value I can provide as my time is eaten up by a newborn. 

You would need to do a detailed write up of both you and your brothers situation to get any useful info from here.  

Once we had the home inspection I was able to have the seller credit us at closing $8k...of which the escrow could not credit the entire amount and so I had the seller write up a personal check for $2000 How did you finance this deal?

I’m in the learning phase and saving up the cash for my 1st deal.

I'll see if they have a program for this deal and I'll follow up with you. 

These foreclosures are too high for the price to fix up.

We opened the kitchen with a new bar counter space and tore up all the carpet.