Doubling down on the original direction of avoidance and BS one's way through issues AND introducing this lawsuit notion. 

Then I see whether any of these markets look good for investments.Saying you want the vague notion that everyone wants will only get agents to tell you that their market is great and use their providers and their PM and that is not in your best interests unless you are going to spend 3-7 days in the OOS market first to make face-to-face contact with everyone and the streets you are looking at.

A couple months isn't a big commitment on the first roommate, and the notion of partial rent for them is not appealing - they pay for the ability to use the space - whether they actually use it or not is irrelevant.However, roommate 2 isn't totally plesant-sounding, at least the way you made him out (roommate 1 describes them as weird and then you describe them as eccentric on here).

I don't know how anyone could call 20%+ appreciation rate "low", I would be interested in seeing where your plucking your notion from as to a low appreciation rate in MN. 

You may find Notion useful as you have access to it on your phone and can take quick notes during your visit. 

I am using Notion and self-built system for this.

I've explored the notion of seller financing or carry and have seen some sellers offer up to 15% in seller financing/carry.

That is absolutely one of the craziest notions I've ever read if it's coming from a real landlord with properties and tenants.

Fresno has been good to me in my investing journey, I'm fortunate enough to live here and I subscribe to the notion to be close to my investments, especially when I started out so it's all worked out.  

Based on this notion, this rate actually measures value.Now, mechanically you can always reverse the process whereby that same rate converts each dollar of VALUE into n dollar of NOI.