Also find a real estate agent that IS an investor and have them set you up with auto listings for the type of product you're interested in.

For instance I think demo can be completed in 3 days and all mechanical rough ins will take 5 days.

I get a list of liens (hospital, mechanics, HOAs) ... 

I hope you have plenty of reserves built for vacancies, repairs and capex (depending on state of the property and lifetime left in the mechanicals).

Plumbing , mechanical , electrical , and structural  .

Habitat would do it but that's a charity program as you know.My only suggestion to anyone engaged with new construction with Morris is to be uber careful.Home inspections at each phase is critical.. once you cover the walls you cant see the corners that are cut.. even though it could pass city inspection.. also you run into mechanics leins and so on and so forth.. building from ground up takes a little more experience than rehabbing.. 

Examples: New Lally columns and footings in the basement to replace temp. columns, 48 sheets of blue board and plaster in rooms that didn’t need any mechanical work but had bad horse hair plaster.  

I'm a mechanic, not an interior designer..but I think it turned out all right!

The convenience of having the payments auto-scheduled every month can't be beat. 

Your scores for a mortgage company will be different from an auto loan company which will be different from a credit card company etc.Consumers who are not familiar with the different algorithms are always surprised that their mortgage fico scores are lower than the scores they get from other sources.