If you have ample street parking and aren't in an area where the cars will get destroyed by hail, etc. than it is less of an issue.

Then tell the agent to run comps for ARV based on updates you do.And you also said you can't afford to lose $20-30k, the most seasoned flippers/investors lose money all the time, and ultimately that is part of your education costs, hopefully you don't make any costly mistakes, but you have to run your numbers well enough to make sure there is some 'ooops' fund to help shield you from that.As for comps, typically, appraisers want them to be in the same neighborhood, within 15% same square footage, same # beds/baths and age.

November Performance Update is 11.34%,  T-12 net return, compounded monthly

Would need at least 100k to update. 

I recently started running ads but paused for some time until I made some updates to a newly acquired property.

DOJ seems to be interested in this, so maybe they'd be interested in also updating Dodd frank and Fannie and Freddie rules to accommodate.

Any repairs, updates, needed to make it STVR ready?

Also, have you given them notice of exemption of AB1482 (Tenant Protection Act) assuming it applies.As an update 3 out of 4 renters are moving out on their own.

We will be able to buy the home well below market value and just need to update since it hasn't been updated since early 2000's.

Softwares can have differing "freshness" of data based on locations they support.For example, one software may update their pre-foreclosure list for Akron, Ohio 1x a week and another 1x a month.