Whether the seller was open to a buyer commission or not, I wouldn't put an additional cost into any personal purchase.  

Is there any good rules of thumb to estimating the cost of a boiler?

For example, should we focus on acquiring one high-quality property in a strong market, or would it make more sense to spread the investment across multiple lower-cost units in emerging areas?

I do understand all recent syndications are struggling with costs and tenants struggling to pay, so trying to be patient for now.

There's other items such as this where it may be helpful to talk to a CPA/EA for a little tax planning, especially since you'll likely get caught up in the passive activity loss limitations if taking bonus on a single rental property as I often see.It's also useful to mention that even if you do the cost seg study (I'm assuming you're doing one to be talking about this), you'll still benefit from accelerated depreciation in the form of shorter useful lives on the assets where you received bonus from.

You may run into issues with re-tenanting and it may take longer than you expect or cost more.  

. - WRT income, at a minimum it has to cover all of your costs plus some for unforeseeable expenses.  

@Jessica Seppo,Many people take the cost of an LLC and funnel it towards more insurance and an umbrella policy.

•If your real estate broker’s license allows you to handle evictions, advertising low-cost eviction services can be one of the best lead generators.

I got 800+ credit and great mortgage offers so only reason im doing this seller financing idea is that its lower monthly cost