Maintaining cash flow post refinance is important and I imagine that those monthly payments/taxes may go up once we appraise and refinance at the higher value.

(Either 5% conventional or 3.5% FHA.)You can do a live-in house hack if you wanted...either rent-by-the-room for the rooms you're not using or find a nice place with a basement apartment or carriage house so that you maintain some privacy but still have an income suite to generate revenue.

Looking for suggestions and alternatives I've been studying for years but this would be my very first deal if I can get it to work.

Thanks for the replies...I'll study a bit and come back if anything is unclear. 

It took me a lot of research and studying to decide to jump into real estate so I stopped expecting people to understand my goals when they haven’t put in an equal amount of research.

The Appraisal Institute has conducted studies that have shown a 5kW system adds $20k in value to a home.

@Trevor Bragg@Nicholas LohrHey what’s up guys I’m Paul new to real estate and I’ve been studying wholesale religiously for the past month came across this question because I wondered the same thing.

I've done a ton of reading/studying on this new law and had never come across anything that backed up your position on this new law.

So Don, my understanding is that an Option is a one way agreement in which the buyer has full control (to purchase) and is usually initiated to "buy time" - such as in the case of a feasibility study for commercial property.

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