I want to make this a full-time career while I attend the University of Texas at Arlington in my purse of a finance degree.

Betty Cruz we have had to be more open to bad credit than we initially planned for.

BTW I'm not crazy to buy a bad deal but in NJ pickings are very slim in B to C neighborhoods.  

Either way, today is at $265k, not bad recovery, but still about 22% from full recovery.

Many title companies are not familiar with tax sale properties and they may have given you bad information.

Meanwhile you can use the remainder of your cash to finance multiple other deals.For a Hard Money loan you will only pay about $750 per month for each $100,000, so if you are not n the project for too long and the forced appreciation is decent, the extra carrying costs shouldn't be to bad compared to the overall deal.

I think the underlying problem here is the roofer (notice i did not say roofing company), had a bad previous experience from a different client and is simply protecting his behind from being burnt again.

That seems bad when most other places are going up, but that's me. 

Was bad!...

Since you have already closed, your 2 options are to 1) move into one of the units and figure out you career later or 2) Put the house back on the market.