Job included inside work of leveling floors, installing flooring, paint walls, kitchen cabinets, etc in both units, as well as lay a new driveway, fence the back yard, provide attic fans, and install electric to the crawlspace to add lights and a sump pump.

If you have a high level of faith in the company you are working with, then time will do what it is supposed to do and increase your IRR.  

The lot is flat and level, so we only need a short gravel driveway.

Quote from @Jacklyn Robins: Sorry, I clearly misunderstood your level of experience.

If they work and the risk level is something you are comfortable with, go for it.

(Usually you cannot use prior employer history until you have been at your new job for 6 to 12 months, depending on the underwriter to show that you are maintaining the same level of bonus/overtime/commission income that you had at your prior employer).

For example, the stairway is not level and you would have to scrap the house and rebuild to live here.

That just adds a level of complexity to everything.I think there is so much opportunity in the US, that why would you try to complicate everything x10, but investing in someplace like Spain. 

Whether it is the increase in hurricanes, intensity of hurricanes, rising sea levels etc.

@Chris Kay it depends what level of renovation you are doing!