You can list a property during escrow if you are intending to buy before you resell.

or someone whose abilities and honesty is worthy of trusting with your entire purchase-investment in the property, your expected holding costs for the time it takes to re-sell the property,  and maybe your nest egg, too. 

Small markets have fewer buyers, so you may have problems reselling it.

On a 4.5% loan at 25 year amortization, your cost of capital is 6.67%, in fact (yearly payments of principal and interest on a $1MM loan are $66,699.90).I understand you're buying for the value add and the re-sell, but I'm going to have investors with a preferred return, so I need cash flow on day 1.

We will receive title to the property, Sellers name will remain on the existing mortgage until we resell the house, refinance the existing mortgage, or pay off the property’s remaining principal mortgage balance.

That's why I discount Amazon resellers as legit businesses and why I focus on repositioning Multi-Family Home (MFH) apartments, because it changes the lives of the tenants that live there by transforming a community.There are 8 money mindsets Savings Mindset – Are you pre-programmed to save money?

On the resale, of the flip ....if I decide to rehab and flip it myself , I have full control of how resells it.  

The plan was to purchase, rehab/update (requires about $5k-$10k) and have it ready to resell by around winter/spring 2018 or earlier, in time for when the "snow birds" from the northern states are vacationing and looking for property to purchase.  

If you are thinking rehab and resell, then documenting every step, showing you waited for all the framing to get dry enough to re-drywall and perhaps getting pro mold treatment with a warrenty would help mitigate flood value loss.

If you're using financing or trying to resell the property any time soon, nope.