Fix and flipping is a cash intensive business. 

Milind,Yes, your solution will work and is the right way to do the repair, just make sure you seal all the threads real good and test the joints with spray to make sure no gas is leaking out of them. you may want to test as many of the old joints that you can as well, just to make sure no gas is leaking out of them.

You want to test the waters without going whole-hog on deal investment or time commitment to various strategies.Where I think coaching makes no sense:1.

Some are just high level and others go as far as testing every drain, opening every window, testing every outlet, etc.

Did required testing and the ground is a little dirty but they are only requiring ground well monitoring.The land is located on a busy intersection between and interstate and US highway.

To get the heat back on, I would need to get a licensed plumber to do some tests.  

Unless the prospective tenant has passed the basic tests (FB/instagram, employment verification,  basic background)  I wouldn't do one unless A+, not worth the risk, and our properties are 45 minutes away.    

On the other hand, the argument that always resonated with me is this: If you were to buy anything $50K-$100K in value (i.e. a car) would you not at least visit the dealership and get a test drive.

The owner mentioned the requirement to have the water sampled and tested by a certified lab. 

Computer Science equals Software Engineering, QA Testing, Data Analytics pretty much everything you are doing on a computer at work.