The reason I picked the area is because I travel for work between NYC and up in Lawrence so the springfield area is dead in the middle of both NYC and northeastern MA.

If you want to learn more about estimating rehab cost I'd recommend the book from J Scott, you can buy it here in the BP book store.What drives cost more than any other factors is the length of you SoW, it's always the additional things you didn't think about that drive cost over budget, like replacing gutters, sealing an old well, replacing drain lines, running wires into ceilings without fixtures, replacing concrete flatwork, fixing exterior grade, removing a dead tree,..New construction is about $250 and when you think about it a gut renovation can involve everything minus the basement, framing and roof trusses (and sometimes even that when first time flippers think that an addition on the back of the house can't cost that much..!!)

If there is/was no estate open, that is fairly easy to do as well.This sounds messy but it's pretty simple to resolve, even with the prior owner being dead.

Whoever sold you this dog actually reanimated a dead dog.Sell for a loss and call it college expenses.

Their reason for moving: over the weekend, while the husband was in the backyard, someone from over one of the neighbors fences shot him with a BB gun (hit him in the face).They’re not the type to get the police involved (husband runs a police accountability non-profit) so I know that’s a dead end for me.

When you say that you can't get a hold of him, is he dead??

Last week we had a storm, the dead trees broke off at top and damaged my property.

The guy is dead!

BRRRR in D.C. region is on life support if not dead , the suburbs the cost of reno plus purchase is usually more than buying turn key.

Evaluating a potential deal like this takes quite a bit of time and energy, and may lead to a dead end.