This means you need to buy especially well a(t a highly discounted price).Having a great and trustworthy contractor helps too on things you won't be doing yourself (permits).Finally a flexible Realtor is one of my must haves, one that can bird dog you deals and sell your flip for the ARV price they gave you at the beginning.Good luck - there is a lot of  competition in Wilmywood.

A developer would probably be your best bet.

Find one or two that are trustworthy and stick with them.

One figure I did see was that over 80% of IL residential uses gas heat and I'll bet 98% of the electric is much closer to Cairo, IL than Chicago!

Since you are flipping your best bet is the insurance approach.

@Arpan Patel  can it happen maybe will it happen for 99% of those who REALLY only have 1k in their checking account or less NO WAY NO how.. the best bet for those folks is find a job.. and if real estate is what they want to do then bird dog... or get a license and do leasing.. that works.

I'm guessing your best bet is to talk an association attorney, obviously one that has experience with co-ops.  

My biggest unknown at this time is finding a trustworthy and affordable contractor to work with.

I've interviewed with multiple companies and several investors, but none of them seemed to be trustworthy.  

Your best bet is to press the seller to provide the documents.