Blow out before you go out, friends.Anyways, here’s a taste of the transformation.

Provided you design the Reno to suite your market, not your own personal taste, and price it competitively there will always be a buyer regardless of the time of year.

Dealing with the banks to get a HELOC when you need it may leave you hanging, too much red tape for my tastes.

I hate having issues so early on, I feel as though I lose all credibility and I leave a bad taste in the tenants mouth for the duration of the lease. 

If you like to get dirty and get a quicker pay out flipping may be your taste.  

Once you get a taste of dealing with tenants you may decide that it's not something that you enjoy.

The staging is very tasteful.  

Tastes for color pallets can change across the country.

Realistically speaking, while I get that your intentions were to assist, the fact you define your personal taste as if such was the end all be all or anything more than simply your personal opinion, gives me pause.The same could have been said simply by the absence of your post.

Basically you've taken your money off the table and you can enter the game again but this time with only the bank's money  Finance the new property or just let it generate cash flow while you save lives.You can certainly adjust this model to fit your taste for leverage but that is what I was referring to.