This will allow you to remove the person and do the financing on your own.Home Equity Loan/Line of Credit: Since you're looking to access equity, a home equity loan or line of credit (HELOC) can be a good option.

You'd be a dang fool to waste your energy or effort's on ANY US standard rental more or less Sec8, are you kidding me?! 

Is there a clause stating he can't remove the copper pipes from the wall? 

Quote from @Arron Paulino: I had to remove four of my out-of-state properties in order to refresh the listings and start anew.

And, yes, there are years of data points to validate that just within my office, tens of thousands of dollars of wasted appraisal and inspection fees for deals (mostly not mine, thankfully) that had 0.00% of going anywhere but the "Loan Application Declined" bin. 

Stop hanging out with your deadbeat buddies who spend all day drinking, talking sports, and otherwise wasting away.

I have since done the demo work to remove the paneling and replace / add insulation and the new electric work is now hanging in place in "old work" electrical boxes.

For me, if I wasted even half a day trying to find one rather than buying this one it just would not have made sense. 

Total waste of my time and his.  

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