He can help you find plenty of home that will be a better match for your criteria.

If i can invest it and make a significant better return after tax than paying it down I would do that but in this instance you will never be able to achieve returns that match credit card debt.

Your thoughts on setting up the guidelines before they sign the dotted line match everything else I've learned.

If there are no comps that exactly match my criteria (e.g. bedroom count), how much flexibility is advisable when searching for comps?

So if your living for free now it will be very unlikely you will find a house hack that can match your current monthly living expense.

Vinyl siding also can warp,get cracked. get ripped off in high wind,sun will fade it and then leftover pieces will not match when you replace years later.  

If you can match the paint, the walls could probably be touched up. $3,000 is reasonable for a full repaint.

But maybe they were delivered to the wrong address and the lady in wrangler simply had behavior that seemed to match a porch pirate.  

We walked the house and clearly there was an addition added at some point.Is this an issue that the title report and MLS doesn't match? 

I called Zinus a few years ago to confirm since model numbers matched the Zinus on Amazon.