When you work the seller financing angle, engineer deal structure with the intention of the seller coming back to the well later.

Beams will be stained to match new engineered dark floors.

i'd say make the choice that creates the best ROI. these days i'd say an open floorplan with large kitchen/master suite/bathroom are the essentials.don't over design/analyse. keep it simple. you will not be living here, so there isn't reason to go overboard with fancy layouts and re-engineering a house with good bones.This is your business.

If it comes to this, obviously, there is no salvaging the existing hardwood.I used a hand scraped engineered hardwood for the new flooring, painted the entire interior and exterior of the house, landscaped, replaced the $500 range hood and a few appliances and the final result is in the pictures below. 

Spoke with the guy briefly and he advised he wanted 4 million for the whole land or was willing to sell in increments of 10 acres minimum but didn’t give a set price on the minimum purchase.I for one wouldn’t know the first thing to do to reverse engineer this thing.

You'll likely need signed and sealed plans from an architect/engineer also.

I am a software engineer full time and part time real estate investor/landlord.

I started out as an electronic engineer and then switched gears to get a degree in computer science.

Cash flowed around $1,000 every month for about 6 months, but then all the tenants got laid off (Engineers on weekly contracts) when a local TVA project was complete.

Cash flowed around $1,000 every month for about 6 months, but then all the tenants got laid off (Engineers on weekly contracts) when a local nuclear energy project was complete.