Makes one wonder which country put them together and on the long trip over to your local stores if some damage too place.My first "new" washing machine after graduate school and moving to start my first professional job was from Sears (the only place one could get appliances at that time). 

Cash flow could be a wash or slightly improve while appreciate potential would surly get better w the SFHs.

At $712,500.00 New loan that would put you at 75% LTV on a 3 Unit I would assume so your good there and rental could be used if it was used to wash the mortgage payment going traditional. 

I have a tenant with a boat and a race car in a trailer , another tenant that brings home his Kenworth tractor ( no trailer ) to wash and wax it and do some repairs .

They hang great on the beds, look awesome and wash up great.

Your repair budget won't survive one modestly poor tenant turn, but your vacancy is a bit high so that could come out in the wash.

You won’t pay cap gains tax but you’ll pay some recapture tax on depreciation, but the amount you’ll pay tax on will match the amount of depreciation you deducted while it was a rental....basically a wash.

Vines are easy to remove unless woody ones- cut back, pull up roots. wire brush the roots, maybe power wash to clean up mortar. 

I thought, while there I could look to see if it was an easy fix, it was, he and I fix it and left.

A year ago the tenant installed a portable washing machine in an upstairs unit.