Trust the numbers and your intuition.

You'll need to make sure you hire an attorney who is familiar with the very specialized law having to do with Alabama tax sales.Please do not take advice from anyone from any other state, because Alabama tax sale laws is completely unique and not at all intuitive and absolutely cannot be learned simply by reading the statutes.

Even though Quickbooks isn't the most intuitive, as you continue to grow your rental investing you are going to keep trying to retrofit Mint into something that it has not been designed for.

I don't know, to me it just makes intuitive sense to build new, since that is what we can afford to do with the cash we have.

@Mike MullinsWell, I'm not putting everything into the calculator but at that low of rents, intuition would tell me there's not enough meat in the deal. 

I'll be honest, the intuition is not really there on taxes for me.  

However, my intuition is telling me that I should wait till I have $100000 saved then go for it which I can probably have by late fall of 2020.

I got really lucky because my intuition told me to buy in a good school zone.

Trust your intuition.

Though it may seem counter-intuitive at first, getting multiple quotes for a job like this can be a colossal waste of our time.