Now, regarding payment during the rehab: my lender had no idea that you can wrap up to the first 6 months of mortgage payments into the mortgage, so you're not stuck paying a mortgage on a house you can't live in due to construction.

If you have had no back up offers I’d rather have a bird in the hand but definitely get paid for any more extensions!

The first month I pretty much had no option other than cash but I won't be accepting cash again.I plan to pursue this one of two ways.

I was not in a flood zone, so had no flood insurance, only hurricane insurance.  

He also said the exterior walls had no insulation. 

Just bought my first buy and hold property in Dover, NH last September 2020 and really had no intention of continuing to invest beyond that.

Just bought my first buy and hold property in Dover, NH last September 2020 and really had no intention of continuing to invest beyond that.

Reading through similar threads the typical advice is usually "wait for it to hit market", but after this long I feel like that's just not going to happen or it hit market and had no takers.

Since we still had no dispositions agent, I flew to Indianapolis in the interim to act as boots on the ground until we hired the right person.

Person left 8 rent checks on the kitchen counter with a note saying "going to live with a friend will return when safe" Person left all their belongings and I have had no contact with them since.