I'm basically at water level on this, and I don't know that other investors could make this cashflow any more than I could without me selling at a huge loss. 

Usually when paint 'doesn't stick', it is because someone applied water based paint over oil based without priming first.

Do you look for an acre with city water and electricity and build on that or do you put in your own?  

I was thinking I'd buy an acre of land that has city electricy and water available, and pay that off so that it can be used for collateral one house at a time.  

We also do a walk through, set expectations for maintenance, filters, lawn, garbage and go over the function of GFCI's, shut off locations (water, power, gas).

I have had good luck finding cool unique pieces in local stores to the property.

I love ours but in San Diego the hard water took out our first unit.

Does federal lands have water and sewer running thru it?

In a cooling climate your state's laws probably state the calendar date upon which heat needs to be provided (for example beginning October 15th) and the temperatures that the unit is required to maintain (for example 65 degrees). 2.

You don't say where you are located....but a big advantage of the mini-split is that it can cool the unit as well as heat it.