I feel it adds character and charm and isn't so generic or cookie cutter. 

I'm a buy and hold guy with 42 units and I've built my portfolio by purchasing with no-money/low-money down land contracts and eventual permanent financing from my local bank. The process for how I structure my deals ...

Benicia's farmers market is very charming and I love their sense of community.

Works like charm.

I'm happy to roll calls, turn on the charm, stuff envelopes and check on properties.

I am nervous about things like not being up to code or having to install fire suppressant systems...

The contractor commented that while the elevators and sprinklers are grandfathered in, if I had to extend them in any way the grandfathering would be lost and I would have to replace them all with new code-compliant systems.If you got a new tenant that was perfect but required additional fire suppression, would you want to replace the whole system for them or would you let the space go vacant?

The quality and charm of his house is nowhere near this one.

This is how you do sales and it works like a charm.

There are "poor" landlords and slumlords in all sizes of properties.That said, in our experience, there is the no-mans-land of small multi-unit properties (5 - 20 units, say) where financing will be commercial and, if not a converted house, the property will have the commercial systems one expects to find in larger buildings (fire alarm and suppression, security doors, common boiler, common laundry, etc).