The town is tough, there is not a ton of inventory and unlike Meriden where I normally work, there are simply less buyers.In the end I was satisfied with the sale time and price, satisfied with the renovations and costs other than the septic and extra holding costs (would have been on target taking those both out), but the length of time with the house and septic hit both hurt.I consider it the cost of business, learn from it and do better next time!

You might be able to be a pretty decent renovation mortgage specialist after a year or two of doing normal mortgages is layered on top of your existing experience. 

Taxed at your normal bracket. 1031 is more for investment properties but you may be able to get creative if it makes sense to utilize one 90k is a decent amount of profit.

It might very well show up if I go down to the county recorder's office in person, however, but it's no longer out there for the entire real estate community to see like it was when the owner was in default (I can't help but imagine this is not a coincidence...).But normal 2nd mortgages, liens, sale/transfer records recent enough to be in the digital era, refinances, etc, do generally show up with a high degree of accuracy.Specific to property taxes, you can just pull the property tax bill by google searching "CountyName property taxes."

If you're charging HIGHER rent-to-own rates than they'd normally pay for just renting there...

Normally it shouldn't take that long to rehab, but he's and older guy and does all the work himself.

Although they normally like you to showing with a signed executed contract in hand.3.

Inexpensive and appreciation don't normally go together.

Not looking for headaches from the normal bank loans which I probably can't get anyway.

Normally a job is what pays for your investing and makes getting mortgages possible. 2) Purpose built multi residential is the best starting place.