We just bought a house in a highly desired older neighborhood.The owner agreed to owner finance it with 5k down over 5 years at 0% interest.We did put some money into the house to fix it up some.The rental income will cover the payments.Always ask for owner financing, the answer might surprise you.Work with money partners to do more deals.Join your local Real Estate Club and learn new techniques and grow your network.

Was a group that sets up in the city, finds the wholesale deal, hires out the contractor, has an agent already. 

If you are working with a reputable company, then you buy the property, hold the property and look up 7-10 years down the road and have a home that has increased in value and a debt that has been reduced by your renter.   

I think you are looking at the wrong places, insulating the floor wouldn't change much. 

But if not, then you can use the LLC to buy the property.

I opted to go the HELOC route instead.

Your wife as conservator/guardian has an obligation to her mother and selling the property to herself creates a conflict of interest in that she stands to benefit as the buyer and is also making decisions for someone else as the seller.2.

If I remember right and it is the same person he lived either in NC or SC and was moving to Spain for a year or something like that.   

Your specialist must find a reliable source for the estimated cost and clearly document the source within the case study.

If you are just looking to network I would go the route of meetups locally (you can check above at the toolbar, hoover over forums then to the right you have events and meetups.If you are looking to wholesale and build a list of buyers that fix and flip for deals you may have then I would pull lists from 3rd party sites like Property Radar or propstream.