You'll end up with pissed off tenants and future expenses. 

I can’t speak much about other markets, but as someone who started off in Columbus, and grew up in Cleveland.

They are just far to speculative and all over the place with values for me to want to base a contract/option off of it.  

you'd use the DSCR loan to pay off the hard money loan.

For instance from the people I have talked to in many areas of California anything sub 400k in a decent area it flying off the shelves with tons of offers.

I currently work as a traveling industrial electrician, but will be getting off the road come September as I’d like more stability, and I really want to househack.

Got notified of an off market property already functioning as a STR... what questions to ask?

He sold it 2 years ago (sorta peak market) but is entertaining an off market deal with the current owners.

I thought about trying to put something up where my little deck is and at my door, but he will still hear me, and he can see me then the second I step off of the stairs.

I had a remediation contractor come out, and he told me the levels on the report is what he'd expect from a basement in Portland, and any amount of washing / bleaching wouldn't reduce the levels much long term as more moisture would enter the space up from the slab because concrete will always give off some moisture, and he couldn't really recommend much remediation.