After lowering the price, I find a buyer by joint venturing with another wholesaler based in New York!

If you're handy, you can ask the contractor to bid for very basic interior finishes (enough to get your certificate of occupancy) and then you can DIY a lot of cosmetic upgrades later on (things like painting, adding backsplashes, flooring upgrades, putting in nicer fixtures, etc.).

My first option would be to Joint Venture if you have a small group of people that could pool their capital together and also be active on the deal with you.

The majority of my holding and our joint venture holdings are in Berekely County WV ( Martinsburg WV).

We were severely undercapitalized and we weren't really mentally or emotionally prepared yet for the life of low-income DIY landlords.

I would venture that most who try REI never get as far as you two'The problem may be that right now instead of having the worst house in a great neighborhood you have one of the better houses in a poor (or better stated small) neighborhood.Is your agent advertising outside of your local area? 

I for one applaud everyone who has the guts to throw off the harness of "we've always done it this way" and venture off the beaten path.

True 100% funding.My RE agent has his WI brokers license and is now my business partner; we are in the process of finding office space which will be the brick and mortar location of his RE business, as well as our joint ventures together.

Any decent contractor should be able to handle that job, or search "tear out plaster walls" or something like that and do it yourself, since you seem to be a DIY kind of woman.  

Yinan,One option is do a JOINT VENTURE with the seller.