Completed and thanks for letting us help with improvements!

. - Ask for the cincinnati port authority grant- from whichever lender you use, that grant paid my entire down payment so all I came to the closing table with for a $175k house was $3200 in closing costs - To qualify you must have 700 credit score and not make over $100k.  

He has poor credit cannot get a loan.

If you have to put everything on credit cards so you can pay your Contractors, or find a small loan for it, go that route.

Here, properties are assigned value based on their last selling price, improvements made & (assumed) appreciation.

You can stick $10,000 in improvements and the home's value my go up $500 - 1,000.How long do I have to keep it rented till I have all my money out?

At some point values will not move up year over year but there will not be a crash like 2007 because that was caused by easy credit then the collapse of the credit markets.

I'm concerned that if I improve the properties and plan to sell them in the future that the title may never be able to be clean enough to sell to the general public due to the tax sale.  

We have excellent credit and are looking at 15 yr fixed rate.  

I have 4 credit cards of $50k line each.