I see a wife and small child,do yourself a favor, If you do go through with it get a kitchen in there before you move in it will save you a lot of stress with the family.

We are currently paying off debt from our wedding (August 19 2015).

I also stress that I have a lot of work and can give them continued business.

I also found myself more at ease and more and more likely to get a lender in a less stressful environment, when I wasnt under the gun to close the deal right away.

If the seller has a house that needs repairs (so it will not pass a retail inspection) and no money to make those repairs, they are more likely to consider the option of selling for cash to an investor.In your marketing, stress these 3 points in your messaging:1) FAST2) CASH3) AS-ISThere are many words you might use to say those things, but those 3 points are what gets the right people to connect with you and see if you can solve their problem.Hope that helps.  

Investing in low income areas (where properties are super cheap) can be very profitable, but you will work a lot harder, and deal with more stress, and the deal will never be quite as good as it looked on paper.

I ended up with a bit more CC debt than I expected paying for our wedding last November, combine that with having our first baby this coming July, my cash flow is a bit jacked up.

What he meant was, don't stress over getting an awesome deal that just doesn't seem to be working. 

I hope eliminating the odors proves to be a cheap and stress free task for you!

@Boyd Evans welcome to the site, BP has a tremendous amount of information to help youI'm a local investor in the New Hampshire and would be more then happy to help you out with any questions you havewe have network meeting at Nashua on the 3rd Wed of the month and it great place to meet with others real estate investor and we have numbers of deals done after people meet in our group, you can find more HereLook forward to seeing you around!