@Laurie Falk Linerar feet of wall x Height of Wall x 10% waste = area of material neededArea of material needed / area of 1 piece of siding * $/piece(look up on Home Depot) = material costsThis should get you close but there may be other materials you will need. 

Their distinction is that you get an actual deed to the real estate. 

They offer it for my personal home but not for my rentals.Tenants actions is something I have been looking for for several years since I got one of those tenants that destroyed as a revenge... it would give me huge piece of mind if I can find someone who would insure tenants actions, I would actually buy many more properties... any idea if/who offers these type  of policies?

In this case, you can usually get a senior loan to 65% and mezzanine to 85% or more.There are also structured options available, which gives you single high leverage loan, and the pieces are broken up (syndicated) on the lender side.

It's the most important piece of info.

This could be an area where I'm missing an important distinction. 2) The contingency would already be built in to the $25k at 20%.

People like you in your position need to find a piece of content that tells you "OK if the seller asks you this: " but what if I bypass the 2.54 points of the mortgage proceedings into my IRS  bloompot horseshoe butter with peanut sauce".. and tells you exactly what to answer, in order for you to be brave enough to start (The answer is blueberry btw!).

They were taking a piece of each part of the transaction.

There's just a lot of things going on here and I'm having trouble with how to put all these pieces together to figure out the actual value here.

Lead paint has a distinctive flaking pattern compared to modern paints.