Decide on your financing approach/product/s. 

If you were to remove your cooktop, install new kitchen cabinetry and reinstall your old cook top and 3 months later it dies, there is no warrenty left on that product.

Congrats cant wait to see the end product!

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I'm already finding certain cabinets, fixtures, materials I like using in rehabs over and over, so over time I can see having a list of the go-to products to put together the order for a new kitchen or bathroom quite easy. 

There's definitely good deals on MLS - there are so many misrepresented listings were the agent is not doing the right job or just listing it as the wrong product altogether.

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FHA should have the lowest interest rate compared to conventional products but yes the MIP makes it unattractive. 

Lenders usually focus on one category or the other, and it sounds like the property is currently in one category or type of loan product, and the work you want to do on it puts it into another loan category, or a different type of loan product. 

Each program has a variety of different loan types and assistance amounts, rates and availability of the different products can fluctuate.