Depending on what you intend to do, I'm sure there will be a market for the product.

Got an accepted offer but I’m curious what thoughts are on having a rental with a natural wood fireplace or what would you do to ensure safe or no usage.

If you're half as busy as me you will understand that this is not worth the time or animosity.I'm debating the depth and nature of my response. 

Do you have natural gas?

At least where I am, surrounded by forest, you're in a constant battle with nature to keep it from overtaking your property (that is, it takes straight up time and elbow grease.

@Victoria Davis, a title company could handle the transaction but in NYS, we don't offer legal advice due to the insurance nature of our company. 

I've heard from a lot of investors in this area that GC's (at least good ones) are impossible to lock down due to the nature of the market.I'm considering hiring individual contractors for all the different specialties, and trying to find a PM to oversee the rehab to make sure work is getting done.

With this being said, my boyfriend is an industrial designer so he naturally gravitates to the modern look. 

There is an "ABC test", as follows:Under the ABC test, a worker is considered an employee and not an independent contractor, unless the hiring entity satisfies all three of the following conditions:a - The worker is free from the control and direction of the hiring entity in connection with the performance of the work, both under the contract for the performance of the work and in fact;b - The worker performs work that is outside the usual course of the hiring entity’s business; andc - The worker is customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation, or business of the same nature as that involved in the work performed.But under B, my business is renting residences, which includes sometimes fixing a broken doorknob. 

Much will depend on the nature of the repaired roof.