A fee well spent for some types of investors.

Many months of costly vacancy, local market rent & resale deteriation, special assessments, property taxes and maintanance fees suggest a quick sale would have been the wise thing to do 2 years ago.

In total, including money lost from rent, legal fees, and repairs, the situation cost almost $30k.

Attorney’s Fees; Collection Related Costs; Jury Waiver.

Depending on the flooring specs you *might* be out of luck because a lot of LVP/laminate type flooring specifies on the install that straight runs will be no longer than X number of feet and room changes will be installed with a transition.

You will never get the $ back in the fees etc. you are gonna pay with penalties, your returns need to be absurd.

Then you get 100% minus cleaning fees and maintenance. 

In this case, you can use Rental Income from the units that you will not be living in and that income can count to help you qualify.FHA rates are going to be lower than conventional for you almost always, but FHA does have a 1.75% funding fee. 

Rip all the ceilings out, install furring strips and drywall.

The northland MAREI meeting and the main monthly meeting at MAREI have a minimal fee, or for $99 a year you can attend all of them for no extra charge - northland is in person, the main meeting is still online, both are great ways to connect and learn.