Get that house, RV it up so that you don't die, spend some sweat equity to get it restored up to bank-liveable status.

Reasonable accommodation should be approved at the tenants expense and then again to restore the property back to it original state.

Someone started to flip it and ran out of money.These cabinets came from the Habitat Restore for $600

If I have 1 or 2 busted windows, I will usually go to the local ReStore and pick up a couple windows for $10 to $30 a window. 

The advantage here is that if there is a total loss to one of the buildings that cost more to replace than your estimate you can use the entire blanket limit to restore that property.

Now CONCURRENTLY for paying ALL cash and paying off the VA loan the couple will give the investor an OPTION to buy a 50% interest in the CA house they are BUYING with their restored VA entitlement.

Prior to becoming a licensed agent, I worked in property management and restoration construction.In the latter capacity of construction, I found myself weekly working with parties who would bring me Inspection Contingencies to determine the scope and cost of work necessary to get real estate deals closed.  

The fire dept turned off the water at the street by the time our guy got there, and the City quickly got involved exerting a fair amount of pressure.In the interests of keeping this story short, these are all the things that we had to do: Communicate with the property owner, the tenants, and the city constantly, offer hotel rooms to affected tenants (some took us up on this), secure the building from future squatters, get the water main and all pipes thawed out, have the water company turn the water on at the street, have a crew of plumbers isolate and repair/replace broken pipes in a muddy crawl space, clean up the mess created by the water in the basement/crawl space, get into all apartments to inspect for damage, test and get water service restored, and repair some internal damage to one of the apartments (that's still in progress), and apologize to the tenants. 

My entitlement will be restored?

Just like a classic car buried beneath the weeds in a field, a keen and well trained eye can restore an old home to its' true value.