My advice is have another funding source lined up.For your situational awareness, the FHA loan while less attractive will let you count 75% of appraised rental income toward the purchase.

I have to go “back” into main section, click on the main menu drop down for a search symbol. - when replying, is there a way to quote a message?

Hey @Al CostanzoYou can surely go through the "Education" tab under your account's main page that has some valuable links.

Is it mainly brick or a lot of wood siding?

SCAMMER steals the photos, makes their own listing...typically about 1/2 the price of normal rent and with some key words that turn people on...like pets allowed, no pet deposit, maybe no deposit, just 1st month's rent....something like that to make it attractive. 

Jami,A cabinet (kitchen or bath) has essentially 4 main components; the frame, the decks / shelves, the facing and the doors.

I ask because I came across a firm offering deals like this:Purchase, rehab and flip a distressed property, timeline 6-18 months.Minimum Investment $100,000Above $500,000 and an investor can appoint a member to the management boardMinimum asset price $1,000,000Management Fee: 2.5% of invested fundsManagement invests 10% alongside investorsDeveloper invests 10% alongside investorsSuccess fee of 50% on returns above 8%My main question is whether the 50% success fee on top of the management fee is highway robbery, or pretty standard on larger deals averaging 30%+ in such short timeframes?

They have a main meeting in Ambler PA and sub-groups all over the greater Philly/South Eastern PA area.

You should be asking yourself these things, in addition to considering the advice given by others, who seem to be mainly interested in maximizing investment returns- which is important but only part of the picture.

If you are in a location that is an attractive "reunion" or "bachelor party" location, a large home can be very profitable.