Many HVAC professionals really push installing a second furnace in larger gut rehabs that have ducting or other issues in the field.

Some people don't like that larger monthly payment or possible fluctuations in their payments when there is an escrow shortage.  

Assisted in a couple major renovations growing up, but no other experience in RE.History: Originally from Alaska, but been bouncing around a lot for work.

They should own, renovate, and manage the property all in-house.

He would either put up all the capital for the purchase & renovation, or he would provide the initial capital and the additional financing. 

There's about $50K in repairs that should be the seller's responsibility, so now we have to decide if we want to ask for that at closing, or if we'd rather not have a retraded deal attached to us, and just bump the renovation budget from $1.34M to $1.39M.

Should I go to the realtor (which I am friends with) and try to negotiate a better price with the bank or offer my cousin the money to sign over the deed to me and bring the balloon payment ($25k) up to date, then renovate and sell.

When it comes time to 1031 into a larger property it's easier to sell the one building within the allotted time than trying to worry about 20 separate closings and this is before you take into account agent fees for all those buys and sales.There are also more options in commercial real estate.

Hello,  My husband and I buy one or two homes a year, renovate it and sell it.

We want to go for another real-estate investment (we are doing buy and hold..buy low, renovate and make them short term rentals on airbnb in Ocean City, Maryland).