Get in it and show him you are serious, by walking the inside.3) On the walk through find out how desperate he is to sell, and talk about what it would take to rehab this house or tear it down and re build, remember you are the expert on this not the guy from out of state.  

I am researching flipping market and i can divide it on 3 segments:1. rehab - when someone gets ugly or under condition house, puts a small money to get condition shortly and sale it as soon as possible - a small profit, high dependence on purchase price. in this case we earn on buying.2. improvement - getting old or cheap house, puts more money to get more expensive house which we can sale for high price and get more profit. in this case we earn on buying and improvement to get highest price among around houses in that location3. re-building or building new one - when we destroy old and build new house. in this case we earn more profit when get something absolutely new with highest price.

Great advice on Home Depot, discounts and rebuild home deficiencies!

After a 10 year hiatus from real estate investing, I am interested in advice and assistance in rebuilding my wealth through investment opportunities requiring no or little money down. 

Thompson was very cold.. you give them a year and some experience they may come in next year and light your boys up.NOw lets talk baseball and football.. your football team from what I recall has not seen a good day since Kosar retired.. my 49ers were pretty great as well know and will acknowledge then they went poo poo.. then we had a run now we are rebuilding againThe Giants what can I say 3 championships in 5 years.   

I'm interested in working with like-minded investors to re-build my wealth so together we can create an income machine, sustainable through all real estate cycles, keeping the company private so internal decisions are stream-lined when direction changes are needed.  

I ultimately sold the land to a developer who wanted to rebuild the 8 units.

Of course this person isn't going to keep rebuilding  a house over and over to maintain standards.

If you move somewhere else, you would carry with you the knowledge of how to rebuild your business, but therein the word "rebuild".  

I guess I'm thinking long term of the potential to rebuild a MFR duplex rather than the house that currently resides on the land.