The current hire will cost 10x as much but she'll save me an estimated $30,000 in taxes so she's paying for herself three times over.That is a huge amount of tax savings on an annual basis.It may be helpful to the BP community to share what your new CPA is doing that your prior CPA was not doing.With that amount of tax savings, you may want to have her look at the prior tax returns filed and if there are rooms for amendinging them and capturing the added taxes paid. 

You're most likely going to need to get a hard money loan to fund a fix and flip.

you should read more into low income housing. if the place is already beat up, just clean it up. low income housing is constant management. fix it up. 

Then what would the loan amount on the home be at that point?

The numbers all work in my favor since this will turn into a fixed cost rather than a % of gross rents.

They took into consideration the amount of rent I've paid and the maintenance I've done over the last 8 years which was awesome of them to do.

If not, that's on you.I would've paid him a more fair amount and got a soft & firm estimation on completion, and priced him to do it on the quicker of the two with no workmanship issues.

I recently came into a significant amount of money or so it is for me.

Usually, investors will want an equity stake for an amount that high. 

I like the idea of a mix - with a smaller capital contribution being my buy-in and then a second larger amount for funding the first deal being a loan that will get paid back to me over time - over say, 5 years.