If you ever need went help from the engineering side, feel free to reach out. 

@Scott LorenceThe advantages to renting to college students are that they generally leave after a few years so you can do repairs or updates, you can raise rents on a regular schedule, they will pay a premium to be near campus, and if you get engineering students they tend to fix the small stuff on their own.

For the foundation I would bring an engineer out first before bids.

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I don't know if the case workers are allowed to disclose past issues, but you might be able to social engineer it out of them.For Section 8, you can ask for first month's rent and security deposit up front, but not the last month's rent.  

When the software provider gave us notice of a fourfold price increase, we began searching for an alternative.Our "funds" are structured as series LLC.  

You can also check out what 80% LTV pricing would look like on this potential deal using the link to our pricing engine in my bio on my BP profile. 

Just a keyword search on MLS does not help. 

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@Chris SeveneyRight, Its basically impossible to know for sure the "extra" cost - unless we bring is some kind of engineer -  which is total overkill.