I would recommend Finishing Touches - http://www.finishingtouchesremodeling.com/- They are extremely reliable.  

Once you close on the loan and finish repairs you can refinance the property but you do not have to wait to put in renters is the work is completed.If you were to buy a primary home using FHA the guide lines state you must occupy the home within 60-90 days and for a 12 month period. 

Take a breath, finish school, and get educated on everything there is to know about RE before jumping in too quickly into a wholesale deal that you are going to get stuck with.

OH I threw out the fire alarms they do not work right they go off when I cook, every time."   

Plan to finish renovations

I literally just finished teaching a CE class for realtors on this 15 minutes ago.The key of course is that the primary residence exemption can be available as long as you've lived in it for 2 out of the previous 5 years. 

With a HELOC, you can pay it off after you finish your brrrr and eliminate that extra payment.

(The Cook & collar counties started allowing foreclosure sales of vacant homes)Cumberland County, New Jersey is not scheduling foreclosure sales.Sacramento, California - courts are backed up & everything is slow going.Stark & Franklin Counties, Ohio seem very slow but I don't have experience prior to COVID so I'm not sure if it's normal or not.

Once it was finished, I did a cashout refinance, got back all my money and paid the HELOC.

I just finished a single family that I am renting out the end of September and moving to my westfalia to some adventures.