This would make the loan high enough to appeal to the lender. 

Even though it's being sold for land value, sprucing up the place would increase it's curb appeal and help it show better.

You know the Chicago prop tax situation better than me, but I do recall quite a bit of room to get a huge percentage of your tax bill slashed by appealing with a good attorney with experience with those matters.Other than that, yes those numbers do not get my attention and unless you have very very good reason to believe there may be substantial appreciation of the property over time, I'd pass.

Appeal to the safety aspect for both parties. 

I'm not sure is this is common in KCMO, but here in Chicago, there are many attorneys that will appeal your property taxes and charge you 50%-100% of the first year's savings only if the taxes are lowered.Do attorneys do something similar in KCMO? 

The long closing for December isn't appealing because we won't get money until closing and we would like to secure a house sooner rather than later as prices continue to rise. 

Each LLC costs me 800/year so a series LLC seems appealing.

Cross-post from Tax/Legal Issues (hope I can do that, I couldn't figure out how to delete that one):I'm not sure if this is common in KCMO, but here in Chicago, there are many attorneys that will appeal your property taxes and charge you 50%-100% of the first year's savings only if the taxes are lowered.Do attorneys do something similar in KCMO?

.- As a borrower can I appeal my appraisal?

Since September is such a long way from now, the idea of wholesaling has been very appealing to me for the past couple of months.