If you're looking for long-term, We have investors from literally all over the country buying these new builds.Horton has been offering all sorts of $$ towards rate buy downs, upgrades, closing costs for months and its definitely hurt re-sells.

I would really appreciate any sort of direction, links, information that could be provided.

My worst one could net me 20-25k. 

@Carlos Oliva - Yes, but you most likely want to involve some sort of collatoral in case they don't pay, you have some sort of recourse.

The city inspector did sign off on the work, and I sort of knew it wouldn’t be perfect going into it, because he was 1/2 the price of other contractors estimates I received.

.- Urgent maintenance issues, this is the most tricky part, in my case I have 3 of these situation and the go-to contractor didn't even answer the phone, so I had to find someone else, so made many calls to get this sorted quickly.One of my investors lives in Chicago and found that the house was destroyed when the tenant left so his wife came to Dallas for 2 months to fix everything so they can put back in rent. 

If I were in your shoes, I would change my mentality to how can I convince an appraiser to give me more value to what is the worst case scenario, if the value comes in lower. 

The jobs I have held have been kind of “babysitting” jobs where I’ve usually only had about an hour or so of real work during my shift which has allowed me to read all sorts of business and real estate books, listen to real estate podcasts, search for deals on the MLS and elsewhere all during the course of my work shift.

You're just another rich guy from out of town until you get to know them and hopefully establish some sort of a friendship or good working relationship. 

Well, this has been sort of an emotional roller coaster given we need to sell the place within a time limit given our financial and health situation (plus wanting to put an offer on the home we want before it sells).