Doing so may be considered mortgage fraud.You may want to consider being less aggressive on expenses relating to your farm business by doing things such as taking regular depreciation instead of bonus depreciation/section 179 expense if applicable.

As an update, I decided to cancel this contract.

its a great place to find like minded folks who run the gambit of highly experienced to total beginners and everything in between.. although I would say its slanted towards those starting their journey and many once they get going and have some success contribute less frequently.you have those that are in some sort of sales business so are always marketing themselves or their companies.. through writing blogs and or posting on the site with regularity. 

Does anyone know if the Flood Maps on the GIS will be updated and when? 

And then you'll report the payments you make to the utility companies as a regular expense titled "utilities". 

***UPDATE**When the sellers realized we were struggling to work this out, they offered us Seller Finance!

Written by a Wisconsin lawyer who updates them each time the law changes.

I’ll need about $50,000 to renovate it to work for me (mostly needs updated flooring / lighting / aesthetic things).

Another way to look at renovations is it may not totally cash out what you put into it but if it makes the house sell much faster than the one next to it not updated it is money well spent.   

The issue is a lot folks (self included) are transitioning from regularly paying W2 jobs and building the business before taking the leap into full-time commission based sales.