Amy,Your post shows a unique understanding that success often times requires external pressures and guidance to be achieved. 

Your computer will recognize your very own phone as an external hard drive and you and create multiple extra folders in that harddrive and drag and drop whatever it is you need, be it pictures (jpg, gif...etc), movies (mp4, avi, dvi...etc), music (avi, mp3, midi, wav etc), documents (doc, pdf, xl, etc) it supports nearly all the files your macbook or pc can support in media.

The ones that were not respectful caused externalities that the community had to bear. 

Keep in mind that JC rent control (if your building has to deal with that) is harsher than NJ tenant law.In NJ you are not allowed to take more than 1.5 month security, so have them pay the security and pay last month's rent up front (this is allowed).I agree that no one moves in January in NJ unless they just graduated, or just got evicted, so I would also pursue WHY they want the place now, also, as an added protection, I suggest you make this a 6 month or 18 month lease, with 12 month renewals... have the next tennant start in June, because that is when all the college graduate jobs start in NYC and apartments go like hoitcakes.

In this instance, where the service line from the City was frozen external to the building (despite being under 6-7 feet of beach rock, crushed rock and quarter minus), I'm not sure what would have prevented the freeze - other than re-excavating and installing a circuit to-from the City's demarcation.   

Either way, and to answer the OP's question, no one is going to lend money on a rehab without performing some sort of in house or external valuation and a cash offer is not a financed hard money loan.All the bestStephanie

I am looking for an access control unit that can be installed in a multifamily building.Other than requiring an external power supply, it does not need a cable, internet or phone line.It would connect to the tenants via their smartphones.

As for what I do, i'm an accountant/external auditor and former Marine.

As the HOA should take care of most of the external Cap Ex items.  

I wanted my first real estate investment to be a condo in order to avoid having to directly deal with external maintaince of the property and wanted a property in which tenents paided all utilities.