I work for an exterior restoration company (primarily roofing) in the Chicagoland market and see these problems all the time.

I flip fire-damaged properties and own a fire damage restoration company.

Hello Team,I recently closed on a 3 unit north side property and have a 2 car garage that has been unused for the past ~10 years, sitting on $250/mo of potential income.  The issue is, the garage lift door was install...

The man had ran a Heat and Air business in the town for many years and apparently had even performed free repairs for needy people to restore their heat.

It's designed not to protect you but to restore after a loss. 

But in August I decided to take this season of my life (no wife, no kids, no debt, and up to $60k cash to invest) to pursue entrepreneurship exclusively (I had toyed with the idea for years) via two ventures: starting a restomod business (a type of classic car restoration) and real estate investing.  

No-one should actually do this because it is dangerous and could kill them or the poor lineman trying to restore power if they didn't understand the inherent dangers involved.If you pulled your meter, shut off all of your circuit breakers, installed a 240v 30a plug to a double pole breaker and the neutral bus (instead of ground), then you could use a 110V generator with two extension cords to your new outlet (cords sharing neutral and having their respective hots in the 240v plug) in order to get 110v to both buses in your panel.

I like driving/restoring older sports cars.

You could either refinance your loan at that time to a Conventional loan to restore your VA entitlement for another property wherever you move to next, or without refinancing you will still have bonus entitlement to buy another property. 

@Laura Kusto we have a restoration company here in Birmingham, so I deal with water damages everyday.You didn't mention if this was something that just happened, or maybe it happened back during the spring or summer and you just found out about it.