I wasn’t questioning you or your motives at all.

At the very least, I would would talk to a professional installer and get their opinion on the flooring product. 

Their money may come from private individuals, and sometimes they use the term "private money".If you're looking for names of lenders you'll need to post in the Marketplace.

There are 15% loan products out there for investment properties.

It will certainly cost more than if you were managing yourself and trying to get individual contractors/handymen to take care of issues, but such a company will already have those people on staff and enough jobs to keep them available for when something comes up at your property.

While your doing all of this you need to network to find buyers no use having a product if you can't get it sold.

Owner occupy what and what for what purpose - refinance, certain loan products, etc?

Appointment set yesterday with very motivated seller, husband recently passed, moving out of state, she owed nothing.

@Blake Denman congrats on your graduation and motivation!

This property is a former auto shop, however, he has no intention of using it as a commercial space to sell services or products.