@Victor Yang I am not a CPA but you cannot take passive losses (real estate activities) to offset active income (W2) unless you make under a certain threshold from your W2 (I don't recall the exact salary).That being said if it is turnkey and you can't value add to create rent growth then probably not worth it at the price

That will probably be the best place to share the story. 

AS such, you probably would not buy the house you have now as a primary rental from the get go.  

Right, but to get an ARV close to $130k, you'll probably need rent to be close to $1,300 unless you can sell it to a retail buyer, which could be a big risk on its own. 

Today I would probably figure out to make money online with AI, that's an opportunity that did not exist in this form.

So I know that is probably a great place to advertise.

As you probably guessed from the unpaid rent, the tenants did not leave a mail forwarding address that I could serve them court papers at. 

You will probably run into some issues and need to budget for that.You budgeted 5k for unforeseen expenses on a 4000sft home.

I'm assuming with a name like handy pro connections he probably doesn't have a NJ HVAC/R license.

Which means they are probably advertising new Deals all the time even though their prior offers are collapsing.