Project manager that wears several hats, one function finding a deal in a hot market.

Use the search function my friend.

It appears my votes, colleague requests, and mentions are functioning properly.

What is the classification of this neighborhood? 

Stoppers are functioning like they should?

Work with a legal advisor to set-up a separate legal entity to function as an investment holding co.

At first, the functionality seemed too complicated.

They even mentioned that the owner couldn't figure out how to make the upstairs plumbing fully functional.

Without specifics on your project here I'm going to have to go with some blanket advice -- here's what I do, and would suggest:   use a construction loan from a local bank and they'll fund something like this:- 85% of the purchase price and 100% of the rehab costs up to 75% of the appraised value of your finished product.That will mean that you'll just need to bring 15% of the purchase price of the home (plus closing costs), so that should keep you in the game AND functions nicely when it comes to refinancing because you'll already have a good idea of what 75% LTV is on the property.

As you likely already aware, there are a multitude of ways to make money in real estate and success can sometimes be a function of picking which one to focus on.