Is it a bad idea to do midterm arbitrage with a willing owner?

Bringing in a new GC creates a situation of its own.You need to be extremely careful about how you mitigate your exposure to fixing legal contractual obligations to the new contractor to ensure it’s scope of services and remedies should problems arise in completing the job.In closing, I urge you not to feel too bad or blame yourself for the situation.

You need to start building credit.

My credit is good just don't have much saved yet.

If you connect with a elderly homeowner who wants to learn more, if possible, make sure they have a younger/responsible adult that they know and trust to avoid bad optics.   

Is that a good thing or bad thing?

Not a bad plan if you are confident in that continuing IMO...time is your friend.

sell it yourself, FSBO, hire attorney to help with paperwork, list on FSBO website, they often have fixed fee packages. have one price if buyer has no agent and another price 3% higher if they do have one so they are paying for their  own agent, like in other countries if market is good agent is not of much help, if market really bad agent is not of much help, Also act like every real estate agent does, in every academic residential RE study does with their own properties versus their fiducial clients, and list the property for more and list it for longer than they recommend to their clients. 

This is a pretty weird question, I know, but I am curious.I get that you can do deals pretty much anywhere, and there are good deals all over the country, but I don't believe that the markets are equal in this regard.For example, if the seller has the ability to look at your credit as an investor (which throws out one of the sole purposes of doing a seller finance), versus states/markets that don't require that as much, I would like to know the states/markets where owners checking your credit history is not going to be prevalent in a deal, assuming the seller is willing to do this kind of deal with you.For context, yes, I am a new and aspiring investor, and due to certain circumstances, my credit is currently not the best, but I don't want that to stop me from investing in real estate (which is why I'm leaning to using seller financing).Please no answers saying that I should just raise my credit score and get an FHA/Conventional loan, because I am currently working on raising my credit, but I can't give a time on when my credit will be "back to normal" again, which could mean I could be stuck on not qualifying for a loan for the next couple of years (ain't nobody got time for that).Thanks for the help!

Business credit cards?