I want to wager flipping locally but don't know how fast the rehab will take and how much it will sit on the market.

So would there be a way to utilize this amazing credit score of your grandparent with your already good business and model and experience, to parlay this into obtaining better loans or credit going forward to purchase more assets thereby increasing the success of your family and doing something great to remember your family member going forward. 

This should help give you at least a basic understanding of Real Estate Investing, which you can parlay into real world conversations.

Builders take it wholesale to parlay some risk. those that pay retail do not have the flexibility to lower the price and move inventory.

Hyperinflation of the US dollar in 2016 is pretty much like a 20 team parlay hitting.

You never know what the future holds for interest rates but I'd wager they're more likely to go up than go down.  

I'd wager to say he has room for growth.http://www.bestplaces.net/economy/city/kentucky/lexington-fayette

I ended up parlaying that into other investments, and I've been targeting areas that (i) have demonstrated strong historical appreciation, and (ii) have the right fundamentals for me to believe that will continue (e.g. more jobs being created than housing being developed, government infrastructure investment, etc...).

Ron, we cannot assume that inflation rate will equal average wage rate in the long term. 

Person 2 buys a property, and the first buyer helps them out.I'd wager that 95% of partnerships among friends fail, and many of them fail the friendship and turn them into adversaries.