Take a nice cold bath call someone and say I need help.Journal what your thinking at that moment.sorry if my post was totally out of context but I thought I would be honest and I tend to be a guy who lives with heart on his sleeve.

A good agent will have tricks up their sleeve to help you win!

He always got an extra pack of cigarettes, rolled up in his t-shirt sleeve.

And if I wanted to roll my sleeves up and help a bit, could I also be reimbursed for that?

If you are local to the property , I would roll up my sleeves and do the carpet removal , painting , minor repairs and have a flooring company lay the new floor .

As long as the numbers work and you aren't afraid to roll up your sleeves you'll make money on a scary property and there'll be less competition for the purchase.  4.

Had to get a 0% interest for 12 months construction loan to sleeve the line and add a clean out but a good plumber with a camera can scoop out issues and pinpoint for repairs, so on our second house hack we hired a plumper to camera the line for 200 bucks during do diligence period of escrow.

Or roll up your sleeves & add some value? 

Columbus as a market seems to be getting hotter and hotter and the more the heat gets turned up, the less likely a lot of properties within reach of my situation seems it can cash flow (relatively low money down, even with all my lender tricks up my sleeve I can apply to my own situation). 

You can get short chrome sleeves to go over 1/2"Pex to hide the feed OR at our Lakehouse I used driftwood bored out to do the same.