What's your skill-set and capacity to take on a fixer upper house, and related, what's your cash position?

However, with the prices in NYC, it would make more sense to buy a fixer upper which would likely mean you'd be living in a construction zone for awhile. 

Today they were notified by the property manager that a pipe has Frozen and burst in the upper level kitchenette.

I still hate the idea of the seller holding the earnest money.Do I cut him the check(every bone in my body is telling me no)?

Central to the highway, top schools, middle to upper class in most neighborhoods (still a usual amount of apartments and duplexes for a nice suburb).Perfect location for me as I own properties across Akron and Canton.

Upper NJ to be exact. 

If you are not familiar with BRRRR look it up; essentially you are buying a fixer upper for cash, rehab it, rent it and then refinance it to put you money back where it came from.

He'd buy fixer uppers on large parcels of land and then would build a full size single family on the same lot and then sell them off separately.

What a good resources to find fixer upper houses in Oklahoma City area?

flipped my first one as indicated above, bought a fixer upper and turned to a VRBO, bought 4 duplex. now closing on a 49 unit Self Storage unit with 4 storefronts.