I had to replace all the carpet and sell the house.  

Plus the house hack... love to see it.

A better option though when you are young is to buy low down house hack but you need a salary to get conventional mortgages.

As you know all areas have been challenged with over priced houses.

-House-hacking: You could buy a property with down payment assistant and do different types of house-hacking.

Quote from @Daniel Rabinov: Hey,I’m looking to start flipping houses in the area.

During this 30-day period, agents should be able to: set goals for themselves; set up their MLS; add their sphere/ALL of their friends, family, acquaintences to a database; begin calling/contacting everyone in their database; begin generating leads from other sources like cold calling, expireds, fsbos, social media, open houses, etc; begin tracking KPIs; create or refine online profiles; create and post social media content; attend role play sessions to work on lead generation/conversion skills & more. 

Im currently looking at purchasing my first house in cash. 

My brother is interested in selling his house to me, however, I’d like to keep the existing 2.9% interest rate on his mortgage.

Just like the rest of the house, the roof is also shifting and settling in... if they made the roof "tight" then yes you are going to have some places where corners might break or things happen.