@Austin Grant McDowell simply if you’re making much more money with real estate than in your job, whatever that may be in your situation and if your job consumes the time that could be used expanding the real estate business than you can make that transition which is going to be less stressful.

Understand the demographics of the local area and consider if the clubhouse would survive based on the available consumer pool.

In the past, at most, all the consumer/homeowner has ever been to zillow was the product being sold.

Search the Networking>Events tab above, for events near you. 

No consumer debt (student loans, car payments, credit card balances, payday loans, etc..)4.

The CEO was heard to say "We are losing $1,143 on every deal but we'll make it up in volume" ;-)"Zillow Shares Fall After Forecasting Home-Flipping Losses"Zillow Group Inc. shares fell as much as 14% in after-market trading after the company forecast that its new home-flipping business would lose as much as$80 million in the third quarter before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization.The company generated $249 million in second-quarter revenue from Zillow Offers, an algorithm-driven spin on home-flipping, and received requests from 70,000 consumers who wanted to sell their homes to Zillow over the internet.

Zillow has done a nice service to customers/consumers, in sharing lots of publicly available information. 

I often choose to work with agents that are more willing to hustle and work hard to help you get the property you want over a crusty 'ol "commercial" designation that's been in the industry forever. 

Beautiful but time consuming-wooden flooring

I need to decide whether to 1) Walk Away, 2) Use a Homestyle Rehab Loan and accept that using this lengthy process will likely add $55k to the loan and put me at the mercy of the Bank and GC's, or 3) Buy with cash (hopefully for even less), slowly renovate out-of-pocket/DIY, and then do some sort of Cash-Out Refi, whether Delayed Financing Exception or otherwise once the building is in a condition where an Appraiser and Bank will like it.Considerations:Buying this in cash will consume nearly all of my liquid savings...