I suspect there will be 'cord cutters'. 

For rental quality grade in lower to standard range small cookie cutter homes, yes, you can probably get away with that number.Try a home in my area where the exit is $1M and you can't use $ .79 per sq ft crap tile or a Home adepot $250 stock vanity.

I wouldn't want to have a jimmy rigged situation right from the get go.

The person at your local Cost Cutters or Great Clips cutting your hair has gone through more schooling and licensing than it takes to be a wholesaler.

For 9 unit you will want to see all units and for conversions like this you don't have cookie cutter units. 

As you probably know, Zillow is not always accurate and "Zestimates" are typically wrong unless you're in a cookie-cutter neighborhood with a lot of home sales. 

interpretation # 1: The govt. is trying to protect consumers from rapacious capitalists with inside knowledge, expertise and resources from profting off of vulnerable and under informed peopleinterpretation # 2: the system is "rigged against the little guy"both are correct.

Something to differentiate you from all the other cookie cutter cabins around you. 

Im currently about to close on a nice duplex in the city of Signal Hill near long beach known for having a lot of oil wells and rigs next to homes.

If so, most are viewable, but remember that the auction process online is always rigged.