Once the benefit is exhausted you'll have to use traditional financing.3.

For a $200K house to need $75K worth of work, it would have had to been in a fire, have a serious foundation issue, an airplane fall on it, a broken pipe in the attic that leaked for several months without anyone noticing.. and even that would be a stretch.

I still work full time, I m exhausted but ready to fire!

The repairs seem extensive including bad insulation, minor roof repairs, faulty structure, floors are uneven (home is a little over 100 years old) galvanized pipes, old water heaters, among other among issues. 

Pipes froze and you have a flood.  

.- Belgium is eligible for the 50K visa raffle (I’m feeling lucky)Am I being too optimistic and is investing hands on in the US as a foreigner a pipe dream?

My concern other than things like water pipes breaking and damaging other units would be protecting myself from claims by tenant.Is this make sense?

Winterized pipes for year round use. 

The one that got her copper pipes yanked out a day before closing. 

But after we had tenants whose various dogs ate my porch swing, the plug off a window air conditioner (haven't a clue why the dog didn't fry himself on that one), dug holes in carpets down to the subfloor, ate the bottom off a closet door, chewed open a door and got under the house in the summer heat to stay cool and crushed a duct pipe and (in one case) were kept under the house so I got to clean feces and urine out from under there on my hands and knees....we rethought our  idea of the need for a pet fee.Gail