Vitaliy, gave you solid advice and did a good job of explaining some of the key issues.

As a matter of fact, crime very rarely comes up as an issue with tenants.2." 

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The positive is you can get them out with 60 day notice so 60 day escrow would allow the unit to be delivered vacant (assuming zero issues terminating the rental)good luck 

I've been able to afford my payments so far without much issue.

The issue with section 179 expense is that you normally have to operate at positive income.Under most circumstances, bonus depreciation is better since you can take bonus depreciation even if you operate at negative income. 

I have two properties where I ran into this issue.

The issue is, like many others pointed out, that the numbers just don’t make sense.

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.: Quote from @Marcus Auerbach: A lot of buyers have a psychological issue with #3.