The precedent has ALREADY been set in the neighborhood that homes can still get approved for a 2 family without a garage and adding a living room to the apartment. 

You might even have to take this through the planning commission which adds a couple extra tens of thousands and about 2 years.

most investors would like to own or co-own a few 200-300 unit apartment complexes but you gotta start somewhere right... keep adding units and cashflow until you have $200-300k in equity in several houses and then sell them and boom...

LOL This originally started out as a 1 1/2 bedroom 1 bath home and we added about 360 sq ft morphing her into a 4 bedroom 2 bath bungalow!

Mike, I'd start with Zillow doing a FSBO ad.

The CMA of the property would be around 430k-450k looking at recently flips homes close to the property (not counting the extra 400 sq). we talked to other investors and came with a rehab cost of 50k give or take, again this is our first work so we might be off by more than we would like to. the Owner of the house seems more than willing than to finance the project 100% by either using his business credit or even taking a HELOC on the property we are flipping.

yeah 10-20k discount doesn't sound like much for a flood damaged property.I saw a realtor in Houston  here on BP mention that Houston Association of Realtors (HAR) added a feature to search for Harvey damaged homes , not sure if there is something similar in FL.

It's an extra step, but now it's a direct transaction, not a third-party transaction.

I love hardwood but do laminate because the issues of adding 3/4" to the floor with doorways etc is too much of a PITA.

A few other strategies I've thought of are bandit signs, Every Door Direct Mail, and Facebook ads.