If you are or become an accredited investor, you can buy into institutional grade $50-125M projects with as little as $100,000 and diversify. 

I've spent many years doing research, learning and working the math but, I haven't actually bought an investment property.My goals are to provide a means to a college education for my two kids (4th and 5th grade, respectively) and to augment my retirement.  

Mainly because as a commercial grading contractor we would have to float the project sometimes for 45 days before we saw a penny.

Grant Park and Inman Park neighborhoods have already seen the improvement.I also wonder if the grading and/or mindset differs whether or not you are flipping v. holding for rental income.  

Should be able to get low grade granite for that price in a regular sized kitchen.

There was a guy who did a podcast, if you go by that, you will screw up, it's full of misinformation and he isn't aware of financial compliance, that's way above his pay grade.

I work with New Western and have a marketplace of investor-grade deals!

I'm really bummed that an assistant that I hired 6 months ago isn't making the grade and I can't just turn operations over and spend the winter in FL and the summer at our beach house. 

If you are using the Utah State REPC, you would just lose your earnest money.Also, if you truly have an investment grade deal, you'll have no problem getting it assigned to a cash buyer in Utah.

If I was a betting man, and had only this picture to make my bet, I would say that this is an freeze-thaw crack - pressure from the soil outside the foundation pushing inward (hence the semi-circular pattern - not stair-step, not vertical or horizontal), so it might be a matter of some exterior grading/drainage work followed by an epoxy grout crack filler repair to remove moisture.I recommend you get it checked out - put a contingency in the contract that covers your bases, so you're only out a couple hundred bucks for a structural inspector.