All easy ways to access cash that dried up overnight. 

If you are on a septic system don't do it unless you have a suitable dry well to dump the regeneration water.

The price tag is steep, but if you are already willing to do the rebuild spring to have the water damage affected areas removed , treated and dried out by a remediation specialist. 

He also said that he sprayed hydrogen peroxide on the remaining portions of the drywall and rented a blower for several days, letting it dry all the way out. 

I used to carpool home with a very seasoned PM, and we would be in the car together for 1-2 hours each day, and that poor guy got squeezed dry like a sponge by me for knowledge and information.

With most of us if those 2 failures are at the front end we are out of businessI am not a competitor and I am not trying to dissuade your from your business model but my suggestion would be to spend some time and take a few dry runs and follow the properties post auction to 'learn the ropes" so to speak

If you know the zoning and building codes it is pretty cut and dry and it will be approved.

@Eric Greenberg@Herb LauI had issues with my contractor and my property manager, but I think I could have handled all of that.  

Student housing is pretty cut and dry.

Hopefully I could then occasionally sip Mai Tais in the Dry Tortugas.