After two years, you can qualify for a loan or continue working the seller-finance angle. 

Snow plowing is an emergency service , we are on call 24/7 for the entire winter , the prices you pay cover the salt that we stock , the prep for each storm , the desalting of the trucks , the overtime .

A scenario where you intented to hold but something came up like an unsolicited offer, higher expenses forcing a sale, change in demographics etc.   

@Tony Thomas So, is the seller increasing their sale price in exchange for a 0% interest rate?

After quitting the RE space in 2008 as a burned out landlord with upside down properties, I rejoined the space as a curious vacant land newbie investor in early 2023.

-If we made the repairs, I'm not even sure we would break even after the sell.

It’s doable, just more difficult, time consuming, with a lot more “contacts” needed for each “sale”. 

I’m looking to break even after ~2 years.

The purchase and sale of a business requires a lot more personal involvement than the purchase and sale of real property.  

The servicers are thieves.