This negative position can consume years of cash flow to recover.

I'd fight like hell to get a 2-4 unit in a very desirable north side neighborhood and hold on to that place forever.

Well, the work itself doesn't get easier or less time consuming if someone else is doing it.

Lesson learned pay others to do the time consuming labor.

And you'll have to make decisions on supplying linens and consumables, which many MTR guests expect to be included. 

Smoking is considered cigarettes, cigars, pipes, hookahs, water pipes, vapes, e-cigarettes, and any other like instrument that produces smoke or vapor, regardless of whether tobacco or other consumables are used.

Find a way to finance this property so you can hold it forever, then repeat every time you move.

They typically do not add value to the house, so when the buyers are looking at comparables, none of them sit there and say...well every other house sold for $200,000, but my gosh this one has solar panels....let's pay $240,000 for this one.Maybe one day, maybe someplace, but NOT today in NJ I expect.Only way I would even look at solar panels is if it is for your forever house, and you have enough land to install them on the ground, not on the roof....so maybe if you have 1-5 acres or more. 

My guys/gals dont buy from the bigger we buy houses franchises I have never seen one of those come through.As stated its a sales and marketing job full stop.. very tough very time consuming and capital intensive if your going to do some volume..

We have decided not to flip this as this is our forever home.