While these strategies can be effective, they can also lead an inexperienced investor to throw good money after bad.

You would contact an electrician plus the power company to separate electricity.

I took up being an agent as my side hustle that slowly became my full gig but before that I didn't need a side hustle as overtime was readily available to me as a nurse. 

I found an area I felt comfortable living in and I bought a house with an FHA loan.

Really learn how to be an operator.

Orangeburg is an inferior, out of date product, made out of essentially paper and tar.

Quote from @Sean Regan: Getting ready to list my first rental property after an extensive reno. 

You are selling an item that you can only sell 365 nights per year.

Probably approaching $100k in total.My options seem to be sell and pay an additional ~70k out of pocket to the lender (underwater amount) or make the repairs and hope the problem is corrected once and for all.

My initial reaction is that given today's higher interest rates I don't think $100k income will support an 800k loan because the loan payment on an 800k loan (30 Year Am and 7% interest)  is about $5,000 - $5,500 and your income is about $8,300 per month.