It’s looking like the best value ad will be improving the studio and hopefully converting it to a 2/2.

. $45,000 of the average person's gross pay.Facts are, unless a realtor is walking neighborhoods, knocking on doors to find a seller, the agent that is most likely to sell a property in the Buyer's Agent and they're all looking at the same menu of homes that thousands of realtors and consumers access directly of indirectly.  

Not knowing the scenario of the street/driveway access it would be best to speak directly with the zoning office and/or a land use attorney. 

That helped immensely with improving my credit score.

I think the location and what type of house you are buying depends on the repairs/improvements. 

Michael Dang Nick Smith are correct and Brian Burke you can access www.hcad.org as an additional resource to get tax info.

@Daniel DietzPerhaps you can have Frank put the 300k down and take out a 300k loan to purchase the property and then shortly thereafter cashout refinance it  at 75%ltv (450k).This would allow you to return 150k to Frank.By structuring the transaction this way, Frank will have access to the cash he wants while enabling him to defer taxes on the whole 300k.I believe this would be a permitted transaction but I'm not an expert on 1031 so you should definitely double check with @Dave Foster.

It was public knowledge that this house was in a flood zone and we even had a gate on the back of the fence for easy access, so the potential home owners could inspect the area and maintain it.

The HELOC I have has a maximum of 96k available and I also have other cash saved I can quickly access in case I need to in case things go wrong.So to get to my question...I'm trying to establish a good financial history for an LLC that I formed at the beginning of 2018.  

I told them I wanted to raise it by $100/month to make small improvements for them (i.e.