Ideally, you get them to pay you directly for the cost. 

I dont think you need advice for anyone how to structure this your already experienced operator.. the decisions is do you want to keep adding doors or concentrate on paying off what you have.

Even though I was cash challenged I held onto my house (putting past due payments on the backend) and had equity to sell, pay off debts, and get my credit in check.

I would get an engineer in there, get a quote on the work, and try to negotiate the seller to pay to get the work done

I just got off the phone with a seller who states that in a land contract, he would have to pay back up to 80% of payments to the buyer if the buyer defaults.

@Mark ShubinHouse hacking means buying a place and living in one part while renting out the rest to pay for the loan.

I have no credit debt and $12,000 of student loan debt I'm looking to pay off within the year.

@Bethany Travis, the short and straightforward answer is to pay a real estate attorney to draft a purchase and sale agreement with an exhibit to assign the contract.

I talked to a couple vacation rentals that don't really handle the STR and they aren't seeing much enforcement as long as you pay taxes on the income and not causing issues with the neighbors.

So I need to pay them off or keep them on the books and continue buying property with DSCR loans from now.