If you want a tie-breaker,  you can hire a structural engineer for around $400 - they will give you a clear statement as to what is needed.Also, be sure to consider the age of the house and where you are lifting e.g. near a bath, kitchen or other potential drain line) - if it is an older house and has cast iron pipes, you will probably have some plumbing work when you are done lifting. 

The option can {many would say, should} contain the future Agreement of Purchase and Sale (APS), with all the terms and conditions of the future sale, laid out, as a Schedule to the Option agreement/contract.In exchange for the right to purchase the property at the {strike} price established by the option contract, an option fee is paid by the purchaser of the option to the writer/provider of the option.I would keep the two agreements separate (as if they are with two different people) and have no performance ties between them (i.e. no rent credits, no financing of the down payment, etc).  

That might give me a cash flow, but think it would tie up my income to debt ratio and still would leave me with nowhere to live over here.

Tied to #2 I'm going to let good tenants break the lease, anyway, as long as I get at least 30 days notice.I've had past, good, tenants whom I let out of a lease come back and wait for one of my rentals to become vacant. 

So currently I am in the stage where I do not want to remain stagnant for the remaining two years but I have to be creative in my financing approaches.In regards to the reasoning of this post, I have an awesome opportunity to JV partner with some one.

And if so, why has it remained listed?

8 Reasons I believe the GTA (Greater Toronto Area) Real Estate Market will continue to appreciateIntroduction Many questions are created by the media when one day it talks about stability, and prices remaining high, then the next day says we are in a Real Estate bubble and that we should all be worried about a market crash.

Your best option is to tie it up on contract and try and wholesale it, or find yourself a money partner and split the profits 50/50.

And  we  do not let our owners use them either because we will be tied up in the lawsuit if the vendor does something wrong.Again, I know several pm companies that do not touch maintenance, others that just have a major company and pay a lot of money for that service.

Is there any way to tie user reviews to their biggerpockets account?