Was it a paper appraisal or a full appraisal?

You’re most likely going to have to pay the full years property tax for all properties.

@Ken Catron If she could live there, you could do a FHA loan with as little as 3.5% down, but I believe you have to live there for one full year.

The house is full of cats and cat poop and is completely uninhabitable (I got a killer deal on it, and I knew what I was getting into.) 

I make around $100k from full time job. 

I would argue that your duty as a human being at this time is to the children there and not the mother, and if you allow the situation to go on you're enabling an obviously unfit mother.

but lets bring some humanity into the equation here.. any one that would even think or want to sue.. well that to me is about as well i wont say but you know my thoughts.. pretty low brow.

It looks like vacancy is low and I would assume a high number of section 8 based on the parking lot being full around 12pm on a weekday.

For example I’m about 85% of the way through my first full fix and flip and and we are about $13k over budget.

I work full time, but really want to become a full time investor.