What's supporting the house - is it on a crawl space with jacks/piers as supports (in which case you can add piers from Home Depot to correct any sloping in the floor) or are there cracks in the outside walls (which may or may not require the placement of steel beams to support a collapsing wall) or are there cracks in the slab?

Decide what that niche will be and laser focus it until you succeed.

I bet if you focused on finding people that just went under contract for a vacation home, most of whom are being told 20%-25% down and an investor rate by their current lender, and present them this superior option, you could have some success as a laser-focused poacher. 

The other was a dewalt laser that I recently bought to do some simple framing.

Right now we are laser focused on providing a quality product and service for cash investors who are interested in our area.

I'm all in man just trying to get more laser focused and get that first deal.

The property was built in 1750 and stone walls in the basement need reappointing (they're falling down), rotted wood beams need support, rotting floors, damage ceilings, majority of the outlets are ungrounded, etc.

@Phillip Kim IMHO, If you're going to start on e-commerce as a business and your primary source of income, you need to work on that with laser focus.  

(Dadumdumdumdumdum)1)  Get a 1-3 gallon pump sprayer.2)  Fill it with bleach3)  Add one bottle of dawn dish detergent.When you pump the spray on the beams, the bleach kills the mold and the dish detergent holds it to the beam till the job is done.This is what FEMA prescribes, it does work, and best of all, it's cheap!!

And I am just going to bullet point everything here that was noted with some type of recommendation by the inspector: -repair / seal walkway / (cracked concrete)-cracked retaining wall-some cracks in foundation (house was built in 1930)-few areas of rot around window trim***-1 piece of vinyl siding missing-garage structure very questionable, including roof, and signs of previous (maybe even current) pest activity***-front gutter brackets not under shingles like they should be*** -crack in chimney-some broken basement windows-doors throughout the house that don't close / latch as they should -2 visible signs of knob and tube wiring -lack of support to beam in basement*** -cast iron water pipes in basement rotted (should be replaced with PVC)***-some leaky faucets throughout May seem like a lot, but honestly I didn't think it was too bad of a list considering the age of the house.