When I say fearful, I should say I've never been threatened, except for threat of lawsuit, which, scares me... and it's hard because I truly feel like the property is great and that I'm doing OK on my promises.

I think that we are in a "What can you do that is really hard?"

It sounds like you already got the hard part done! 

It's hard to say offer amount without knowing the rehab part since that could blow this out the water.  

If you wanted to fund a portion of the down payment would you suggest a hard money lender, personal loan, etc.?

Since I work pretty hard at my day job and don’t have much renovation experience, I wanted something simple—a rental I could put a tenant in and at least break even.

I had someone tell me that there are going to get hard working 650+ credit score applicants in a Class D neighborhood in philly because they have class A finishes.

Plus each house sitting empty for t months seems wasteful.)But it’s hard to find a warm but not hot and humid location.

@Lisa Oliver recommend going to your local Home Depot on a Saturday morning, the earlier the better.Contractors working on a Saturday are the hard workers!

A couple of months ago, I purchased a property using a hard money loan for $115,000.