Nationwide has the third largest children's hospital in the U.S. here in Columbus.

The piece of furniture you see on the right is a Murphy bed cabinet (with an oddly super comfortable memory foam mattress).

There are exceptions if the tenants damage the furniture, even thought it is your furniture.

I really am seeking out the financial education to make the best decisions and grow my late father's legacy for my children and family.

. :-)   I recall anecdotally this being pursued as a pedofile/recording children in their bathing suits thing ... 

A lot of people can swing the 6% on a permanent basis, but not in years 1 and 2 when they have to buy all the "accessories" that come with a new home, like the new furniture, the redone kitchen, landscaping the yard, bla bla bla.By frontloading the monthly savings into year 1, poof, we've created a furniture budget. 

VA loan with $15,000 added renovations and furniture.

I spent about 6k to get rid of the smoke smell including painting, cleaning the vents, cleaning the furniture etc.  

You can find videos/articles online on how to get the basement dry, but the basic process is: 1) turn off all electric to the basement (to avoid electrocution from the water), 2) run pumps to get the standing water out of the basement (sounds like you're already doing this)3) remove all furniture and items from the basement,4) once you've pumped out the standing water from the basement, rent a wet/dry carpet cleaner/extractor from home depot, and use it to extract as much water as possible from the carpets (they'll be much lighter and easier to move once you get the water out). 5) After you've used the carpet extractor to get most of the water out of the carpet, remove all carpet and get it out of the house for drying (if you're trying to salvage the carpets), or throw the carpet out.

He also generously vested to his two children and a nonprofit he founded.