I got the job before earning my MA and just graduated 8 months ago, so I'm in talks with HR to get some serious pay adjustments as well as upward movement in the next few months.

On to your questions:1) Earnest money back should be easy.2) Extra expenses will be a hard sell.

May be best to hold for a few years before CapEx, then sell if it doesn’t this summer.look if you're earning appreciation, amortization, and tax benefits, it's hardly a terrible asset. just mehI have one just like it.

This will allow you to keep your day job while also earning additional income with little effort on your part.

Five friends will be high risk for turning into an animal house.If you're this desperate, I would at least charge extra rent per additional person.

Not sure how you feel about that.I am assuming your $125K cash offer doesn't have the same 7% costs of sale, but is it worth the extra work and risk to earn $61K then $20K from the cash sale?

If you think about it, brokerage you only need to find the buyer OR the seller and you might earn 3% of the purchase price.

I'm ready to buy the house next month (June 2018).I'm considering pulling out about 75k extra, on top of the 80k, to put into another investment. 

Both of us have a couple of properties in different states (buy and hold) but want to try flipping to earn money for larger multi-family properties, and expand our portfolio.

@Akeem Wheatley The subject has been beat to death on BP.https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/519/topics/24...It boils down to this...If you can put your money into an asset growing at 6-8% and you can get an immediate line of credit against that asset at 4.5% (prime), then anything you can do with that borrowed money that earns more than 4.5% will be adding value on top of the original asset.