In the world of development you have money at risk to complete these and other reports, legal, zoning, permitting, environmentals, etc before you go hard on your deposit with a seller.

We dealt with rentals, flips, commercial, small apartment complex developments (~10 apartments), sport facilities, and a few government contracts.We are actually very open to different opportunities and investment approaches, but our plan was to start "smaller" with some cash deals in NJ (maybe somewhere in the area between Staten Island and Philadelphia, but staying in NJ), by flipping a few smaller properties and starting to generate some income.

In Florida, short-term rentals (under 6 months) are subject to a 6% state sales tax and a 6% Pinellas County Tourist Development Tax (also known as the "bed tax").

Just posts that say get a lot of quotes because they can vary considerably.Need to replace a supply line from the main to the house.

The house currently in question, the manager said he had an older couple apply, but they were on fixed income and wanted to sign a two or three year lease so they knew they wouldn't have to move or incur additional expenses.

I asked my mom to see what they want  for the house, I have a hunch that it's payed off and they just want to offload it, they mentioned doing a quick close .. the ARV is about $220k and she's kept up with maintaining the property.I'D buy it with hard money, fix a few things while she pays me rent (the hard money interest rate)  and do a cash out refinance in 6 months.Do you think that's a good strategy?  

Assuming the schedule holds, we'll have some people from Section 8 Housing coming to share about the program and provide us with some time to ask questions.

Lenders - Is there a preferred lender for multi-family housing that's owned by out-of-state investors?

Or develop moneymaking skills I didn't know I had in me because I had to push myself?

I think the chance that Bob would be willing to take on a Cleveland 44105 house is about zero.