This should be easily removable when no longer needed.

, yard - may exceed total security deposit which you can't easily recover?)

If you could have easily found out that it was historic and/or already did but ignored it and closed anyway, it might be a hard battle to win.If the seller says the roof is 5 years old and the home inspector says it's 15 and needs to be replaced soon, and you close anyway, would you expect to sue over the roof?

I can pretty easily find a property and be all in at 70-80% arv.

Best to have the property delivered vacant and find your own tenants, that's pretty easily doable with a duplex.I have inherited tenants who had low or no deposits.  

Once you've done a deal you'll be able to discern the good deals from the bad deals more easily. 

Experienced people may not want to spend money on something they can do easily with excel.Newbies might like software because it helps them make sure they aren't forgetting something.

@Zach Quick i am not occupying. could easily afford the loan if i could roll repairs into it though. i have very specific estimates of what the work is.Thomas S.

How easily you can you can bend it will tell you a lot about how old the roof is.However, its not about how old a roof is.  

Hi Eleena, I am in a similar situation I have terrible credit but I have capital around 80k in cryptocurrency that I could easily liquidate and I have about 500k in equity in my current home.