The easiest way to structure this is to purchase the property with a hard money lender that will cover both the purchase price and the rehab cost and refinance the loan with a conventional or DSCR loan 

The easiest way to check abandonment is to verify if the property is vacant and if the taxes are current or delinquent.

Obviously, she didn't want to spend more than few minutes a day or half an hour a week to work on it.

Usually it's something like that I feel they are trying to milk the project for extra time when it should be just about done and they start showing up for half days half-assing it while clearly starting another project for someone else.

If the USD looses half it's value, thus loosing half it's purchasing power, what do you think the DOW would change in response? 

Do you pay less if its only for half the house?

To qualify as a Real Estate Professional (REPS), you must meet three criteria: the 50% rule, meaning more than half of your total work hours must be in real estate activities; the 750-hour rule, which requires you to work at least 750 hours in real estate; and material participation in your properties.

Easiest way to find tenets is affordablehousing.com, Once I got my property on there it rented within a week, it was previously on the market for 2 months 

(I half joke)It appears each home has its own 1000gl septic tank and leach field.

Once we sell our family home, my half of the proceeds should be about $300k.