What I noticed on this particular street is that most of the neighbors own their home, very few bars are on the windows and lastly the local power company is almost never on this street disconnecting and reconnecting services.

Legal height 8ft.Had to add public access to electric disconnects as well.made me add two window in the basement too.Really just need to get an architect who is self certified.

Also from my limited trial of some of the crowdfunding sites, I believe you're disconnected from the deal sponsors and don't have directed access to them. 

Maybe there was a lot of disconnect between my thought process and skill because I only gave a very broad overview.

Depending on how bad is the foundation state (how many inches you have to correct), is very possible the sewer line will disconnect/break in the horizontal portions.

There may be a battery backup so it could make noise even after you disconnect the power (but 15 years is pretty old for it to still work).

Remove the burner/pilot/thermocouple assembly (3 wrenches), disconnect the gas connection (1 wrench), unscrew the assembly (b.f. pipe wrench) and pull it out. 

Since then, the tenants phone number has been disconnected, he's never answered his door, or notes attached to the door.Finally, we posted a ten-day notice to quit on his door.

You might get away with installing the new mini-split system upstairs and disconnecting all the vents so the furnace/ac only works downstairs.

Simply say this is what you will pay and then if they balk tell them if they don't get another buyer and reduce the price to call you.You don't want to burn bridges with them because they might have another asset hit the market you will do a deal on.Many of these bankers are clueless and have a disconnect with market value and are only thinking of the balance sheet.They will struggle back and forth on what to do especially the smaller banks.The small ones can't take the hits like the bigger ones.This is just what I have observed doing deals with banks.