@Kathleen McCabe yes you one hundred percent self-sabotaged here by telling the loan officer there are foundation issues.

This will be just one of hundreds of similar incidents for the police, it is not that big of a deal to them, just make sure no preservation of crime scene is required, there will be tape and notices if so....FYI, your property is officially in a war zone!

It seems that it would have been a lot more convenient for you although it costs a couple of hundred bucks.I closed on a hard money loan last week for one of our REOs.

Even for Milwaukee standards in any decent neighborhood it is not possible for a duplex house hack to actually cash flow - you are basically on a 50% vacancy.The way you should look at the deal is as if you would also pay rent: now you should be cash flow positive.Most of my younger clients will end up buying in the $200-250k range and end up contributing a couple hundred dollars a month to make PITI, depending on loan program and down payment. 

For me, I'm a very conservative investor and may look through a hundred deals a month, and at the end of the year only invest in 4-5.

By the time you do a few hundred you will learn pretty quick on what will work for you and your goals. 

While there are plenty of low-cost resources to help you get your property on the market and expose it to a portion of prospective homebuyers, this will likely cost you time and money.Furthermore, Zillow allows you to post your property as 'FSBO', but their main responsibility is to the agents/brokers who pay hundreds or thousands/month in ad spend to the site.

I set the square footage range from a couple hundred below to a couple hundred above the subject  house.

I have done plenty of research, listened to hundreds of hours of BP Podcasts, and will be reading both “The Book on Estimating Rehab Costs” and “The Book on Flipping Houses” this weekend.If I Partner with him I might learn faster in exchange for less profit or teach myself, make mistakes, and keep more profit (maybe?). 

These are in addition to a huge warehouse that Amazon operates in San Marcos.https://austin.culturemap.com/news/city-life/06-12-20-amazon-delivering-hundreds-of-jobs-to-two-austin-suburbs/