I maybe got paid $50 an hour and when I did my side gig, I was getting paid $100 an hour.What do you do for your W-2 job?

Of you can relocate and house hack, I highly recommend that so you give up less cash upfront.Good job not spending your stack on some bad *** pick em up truck or other nonsense young people would otherwise spend it on! 

Quote from @Dan Sundberg: Nice project!

No one will ever thank their landlord for doing them a favor- at some point, they'll have to pay market rents and you'll be the evil slumlord when that day comes, no matter how nice you've been up until that point. 

While it's true that if the seller entered into a contract with a new buyer and wanted the same title company to provide escrow and title services that title company may want the release signed for their own internal audits, there would be no reason seller and new buyer couldn't just retain a different title company to handle the job.

Nice one!

Good job!

There are often church groups that can help, but he needs to start looking for a new job-he should have done that as soon as he was laid off. 

Many lessons have been learned firstly is you can’t be too nice or trusting and second is, don’t wait to figure out the refinance and cash out process and until you are almost done with rehabbing the property because currently going through a very lengthy, cash out refinance ordeal at the moment as I’m trying to get financing terms finalized as we speak.

It also has a nice loft with ceiling that's high enough that you don't have to hunch over to walk around.