., which all take a lot of sweat off the brow for landlords, but that comes with a hot real estate market which drives prices up.Good Luck.

Purchase price: $410,000 Cash invested: $80,000 Sale price: $520,000 House Hack - Lived on the beach for 2+ years, fixed up a historic gem using sweat equity and then sold it FSBO (before we had our realtors license) for a $30K profit.

It is a great way to invest in real estate for under 100K a year without doing heavy lifting and putting in a ton of sweat equity if you have a full time job or other endeavors 

Philly is a great market for those looking to put in some sweat equity or are okay with not having cashflow, and hanging in for the long term as the area appreciates. 

The only other thing you might be able to do is find a partner who will put in the cash and you put in the sweat equity.  

For example when Brandon was having to convert his 1031 he was sweating balls every show about how he had to find a deal in x many days.

I fine that an experienced contractor knows how to budget the rehab, has access to labor and is not afraid to add sweat equity if something unforeseen comes up.  

Hope your inspection goes well and there are no active issues, but I would not sweat the future sale being affected.

Nobody needs to know how to sweat together a big brass shower valve with copper supply pipe and water hammer arresters, for instance, or how to mix deck mud and slope it evenly with a level to a shower drain.

Was it your sweat equity?