Before you consider whether to finish this rehab decide whether it even makes sense to do it.

They may even help you with arranging contractors, verifying market prices, and more.Start by going to www.narpm.org to search their directory of managers.

Perhaps it is different when it comes to commercial real estate versus residential, but if you are going to renovate a SFH or even a MFH, you wouldn’t pay more for it because you plan to improve it - if anything you pay less?

It is staying a VA loan even through the refi. 

Plus - everyone here says to lower the price even though I am getting a few applicants each week.

They don't seem to have any integrity challenges exaggerating and even lying to gouge their clients.You should review your PMA to make sure it clearly spells out what they CAN and CANNOT do. 

If the repairs are not sound I'd get an estimate to fix it and request a price reduction.I may also decide to do nothing- If I find evidence that the modifications were done using permits and passed the city inspection & maybe even obtained occupancy certificates then I would just close on the deal. 

Even then it’s probably a bad deal.

It's not that you can't find a nice house here or there south of say Coffeeville Road or even Price, but it's pretty rare.

I am now approaching 115+ days since assignment on my first 3 deals and because I am in NYS, my attorney tells me that I cannot even speak to buyer’s or seller’s attorneys due to “breach of contract”.I lost my first deal in fact because we were hindering on 130 days since assignment (should have been long closed) and the city decided to demo before we closed and were able to takeover in court.