Unless you have the money to remove (all) the lead paint from the house, you’re best staying away from buy/hold. 

You can have the funding fee removed if you're 30% disabled, but that ain't worth it either.

@Boots Bonner Remove the vent and have a look is the 1st thing I would do.

As a recent lesson learned from a previous purchase... trees are REALLY expensive to remove.

Im sure this will be removed soon, but at least the truth is out now. 

If the property were to be appraised around $750k and my mortgage was at $620k I would be able to refinance into a conventional loan and remove the FHA mortgage insurance.

Keep in mind the premium can change depending on: actual replacement vs cash valueliability protection levelvandalism clause or notmedical expenses levelprotection of rent income or notwater backup or notrebuild code update or notdemolition removal or nottype of house (1 story vs 2-story), type of construction (e.g living space above garage) and materials (brick, stone vs. wood siding), or roofmultiline discountshistory with the provider, claims history and CLUE report/scorecredit score (maybe)property historydesired coverageetc.

I need advice on how to remove the Dog smell from one side of my Duplex.

We had to remove any contingency on the last two properties to compete with other investors offers.

I came back at offering to split it and they stated they never got documentation for the oil tank removal and would have to pay for that and would not pay for any portion of the mold Remediation.