I don't want to spend money nor waste anyone's time if the cost would be prohibitive for me. 

Welcome and happy to network and assist .

No big employers in the area and most tenants in park are on government assistance or receiving social security.

You can spend waste a lot of time on these.I would try to find a probate investor in your area who knows the process. 

You want this under contract prior to spending this type of time and effort on this property.

You may try doing some more reading on here or checking out one of the webinars to learn a little more about owning rental property; figuring out your cost basis is pretty basic stuff, and you want to have that down pretty solid before you start spending money. 

That extra $500 isn't saving you money...it's costing you money you aren't spending now. 

For example, once the home is complete how much are Fix n Flip groups spending to sell the home through a broker?

I wouldn't take them to curt for them because you juts going to spend more money and it will stress you out. 

We ended up spending 126k...