See if you can find a good supplier for trim, HD and lowes is a rip off.

Contact a reputable short sales agent and see if they will give you a cut or have them negotiate it and wholesale it.

But for the average homeowner, a lease option is really just a way to gain possession of a house while working on purchasing it.Lease/options have a bad reputation because some investors use them to, frankly, cheat people out of the option money.

Conceivably you could use a reputable turnkey (yes, we're all sick of this term) company, but you'll pay their fat markup (probably 20-30%) and won't get yields above 8-9%.I will say that once your team is in place, the incremental effort on each new deal is dramatically minimized, as would be expected.

A reputable agent won't be trying to cheat you out of that good deal.

I have never been in a similar situation but I do know if you plan to continue selling properties on MLS you have to protect your reputation.

Research Non profits and see if you can get other less effective nonprofits on board if they have better reputation, resources or could get the neighborhood to respect itself.

She is very good and works for a reputable company in Biloxi.

For reputation purposes I'd make the phone calls.

But if they donate it they would claim a $100K loss while building their reputation how they help the poor (while they contribute to the destruction of the middle class).