Having criteria you stick to will save you headaches in the future and help ensure you leave emotion out of it.

Will leave that up to the professionals.

Starting out by flipping houses and eventually getting into rentals and passive income properties eventually allowing me to leave my 9-5 job.

It'll be stolen from someone else, but that's not your problem, just don't leave it where someone can run the registration number.

They are leaving.

I see this as the best direction moving forward as my family and I leave military behind.

I would try to leave exterior, landscaping, and yard work and the final steps. 

So I received 80% of the equity, leaving 20% in the home, and losing a few thousand from all of the closing costs, appraisal fees, etc.

If you have a good amount of money in your 401K or Pension, have a stable job you don't plan on leaving in 5 years, or don't plan on retiring anytime soon, you can take out a loan from both or either of those retirement funds to use as capital and invest with it.

Our objective is to eliminate water / humidity near the building foundation and also get rid of these hedges that just trap leaves and trash beneath them.