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This is a complete gut job, so everything from the pipes up is new. 

I'm not completely sure what you mean by that, but reading between the lines I'm thinking that you mean that you will use no debt (You will pay, up front, 100% of the purchase price.

If you ever plan to rehab the property and have to pull an electrical permit you could be required to do a complete rewire.

Unfortunately, with the growth in our area over the last several years, they are completely booked. 

He recently came out with a "world's first blockchain NFT for tokenized real estate," (Tykes), hyped it up a ton, and then shortly after launch completely stopped marketing for it.

Your insights and advice on navigating this complex situation would be greatly appreciated.Thank you for taking the time to read about my dilemma, and I look forward to hearing your thoughts. if the sellers agent accepted six offers then they are completely unprofessional and do not bother with this property.

Do they have conservative LTVs and lending practices or are they doing 80% LTV + 100% rehab, immediately funding deals with little to no equity to protect your loan (and completely speculative on the ARV, I might add). - What is their default rate and principal loss to date? 

Any competent plaintiff's attorney will bring both the management company and deedholder in as parties to the claim.

The nature of the business will be such that lawsuits and claims are expected.