But you get non-recourse financing with 30 year amortization and much less of a hassle with paperwork (like 2 years tax returns, etc.)Something in the $10 million range would price out at about 5.25% to 5.50% at 70% LTV. 

Your cash will be essentially idle while you are building equity.

Essentially we are trying to determine if we want to become property managers and want to know how to set us apart from the competition. 

Of course the roofing contractors will tell you they will do all the paperwork for you, and that you don't have to worry about a thing, blah blah...they will rig their paperwork to quote for up to the amount out of the insurance company's payout.

Essentially then, you shoot for a bank appraisal of $650ish, and then your mortgage is appraisal minus whatever gift + cash you can put in.

As long as you're following the law and have your paperwork people can say what they want but you still be just fine and make lots of money.

Essentially the house needs a ton of work, 100k easy.

Its essentially like running 100's of mini-hotels scattered across multiple locations. 

I currently have a 16 acre parcel zoned as rural residential 10 that I would like to break into 3 parcels, essentially re-zoning as rural residential 5, but our county has recently buckled down on parcel divisions so I want to hear what others have done to get the county to grant a re-zoning request or an exception for a specific lot/ lots.

I sent the paper work to my CPA to do the taxes in 2014.