I plan on asking some contractors, but I'm frankly still in the relationship building phase, and want a little more knowledge going into those conversations.TL;DR: I have a shed and want to make it comfortable for my guests to hang out in.

In some cases, the borrower will end up getting another bridge loan because the rate adjustments with a DSCR loan can be crazy, while a bridge loan is more cut and dried.

When the Fall hits and that income dries up, some of these individuals who bought high will throw in the towel.  

@Will Barnard I can't say that BP hasn't helped my career and REI education enormously, but there have been plenty of missteps...when Josh and Brandon were picking up momentum, the content provided was rushed in front of people with some obvious deficiencies...and podcast guests were not closely vetted...you have guys like Michael Quarles openly bragging as a licensed real estate broker negotiating sellers out of their equity and building wealth by performing open listings...beat people down on price and stick the property on MLS before the ink dries on the contract...and all the while new investors standing by with their jaws hung open in amazement at what an investment career he has made...there are plenty more examples....BP does bear culpability for facilitating discussions on the forums where individuals are implicitly brokering deals without a license or in clear intentional violation of their state laws.

As I really wanted to renovated the first floor but if my closing cost are 21k I will be dry on cash.

If you're moving furniture, you won't need to worry about the weather because everything stays dry under the roof.

The wood around the PEX appears to be bone dry.

If you wanted to maximize cash flow, what strategy would you take with $50k of dry powder. 

I also got tired of trying to buy something and coming up dry.

However they are telling me because there was a dry cleaner business at the mixed use building in the past there could be soil contamination.