And wholesaling doesn't cost much to get into (minimal things like ads, earnest money or an LLC if you plan to use the disposable LLC method to wholesale the property).I've never made less than $5k on a wholesale fee and wholesale deals can happen fast if you are good at marketing and you know who to sell them to.

It is informational but also provides the foundation for you to renegotiate based on the findings in order to make your offer financially viable, and if the issues are a bigger headache than you want to address, you can simply pull your offer and move onto the next potential opportunity, minimizing the investment, you have made up to this point. 

That way they minimize taxes, get cash flow, and have an easy sale.

The rate will be a little higher, but the closing costs are minimal and you don't pay any interest until you actually start using the money.

It provides a means to enter the market with minimal assets. 

You should have minimal interaction with the tenants.

They are doing minimal rehab work - swapping carpets for laminate flooring and some repainting and patching of holes in the wall.

This is one of those cases where it sounds like an attorney is willing to take your money on an hourly basis for a case that has minimal change of success.

I have a full-time job, but in my spare time started calling a list of 150 absentee owners in a small mile radius and have put a 3 unit, a SFH, and hopefully another SFH (the last SFH is in the closing stages of negotiations) under contract making very minimal calls/week.  

If the walls are bright white, would a dark ceiling make sense?