We negotiated a bit on price so we were both still relatively happy.Make sure your inspector spends time on evaluating roofing, plumbing, electrical, etc.

You need to spend time educating yourself, viewing properties, getting money lined up, analyzing deals, and THEN...

If you can spend the time before you actually move really developing a set of criteria, you'll be ready to jump on the ideal property when it comes up. 

Also, transferring the savings before paying your other bills teaches you that your savings is top priority and forces you to adjust spending to make it work.

If you want to get all of your money out, you need to spend no more than 75% of the final ARV.

My opinion is that there isn't any money in it for them so they don't want to spend time helping you look. 

Wouldn’t want to spend too much time focusing on an LLC than take time away from you learning to analyzing deals, looking at properties and closing on them.

I have seen it happen plenty of times to know your best advice is to make sure they figure out how much of that money will go towards spending spree and how much towards investing now.

They'd like to avoid either scenario.My thought is to have them spend the money to get the house livable (adding a means of heat and turning the water on, dealing with any issues that brings) then pass an appraisal and get either a heloc or cash out to fund renovations. 

Perhaps by bringing attention to it at a public meeting the "right" person will hear you/get wind of it and send one of their guys out to spend an hour to "make the problem go away."