I believe they have six chapters all around LA county. 3.

I align with his thought process and believe a majority of the things he says are accurate 

It might help you sell the house since you can indicate that it has been upgraded.I would do what is necessary but not go overboard.If you have galvanized, replacing the water line from the street to the house makes a hug improvement on water pressure as galvanized will rust and restrict the flow of water over time.I believable you just need to have working plumbing with good water pressure for the appraisal.I would be more worried about plumbing issues or old piping showing up on a buyers inspection than it affecting an appraisal.

I have to put down $2500 to reserve it while waiting for my funding and I believe I can back out at this point, but that’s more than I’d like to lose if it has an obvious issue. 

I believe it was purchased by an Indian group, from what ive heard the only reason they bought it is because it was attached to a gas station that they bought.

Most believe it is a bad idea...fewer will agree to do it.

The Beginning of your statement sounds like bird dogging but i get what your saying.and overall these are some great advice and all these apply to all of those that have this same problem right now, i always believed that  trying to get loans searching online or asking around which isnt a bad thing to do but the likely chance of someone getting a loan to help them out with a credit score this low is unlikely as some of ya said, so there is only one way to do that and that is to work and pay the debts off, mainly the utility bills that need to get tended to especially if you wanna live in your own space again, or if its for the first time.We all had some unfortunate circumstances in life, Death in the family, force to get bills put in your name by someone so they didn't take the blame of not dealing with those bills themselves, and that's someone you don't wanna live with trying to push everything on you  and make it your responsibility, sad reality but at the end of the day it gonna be your responsibility anyways later on.

I believe he’d like to do a JV because it’s near where I live and he’s about 1 hour away.

I believe that most of the large retail banks have a program like this as long as you meet their threshold value requirements. 

I have a very helpful realtor that does not push me to buy, but he pushing a little on this one because he believes it's in the right place at the right money.