That is your best bet to ensure it is watered regularly. 

I'd bet that for the last 50 years, investors looking at Boulder have felt it was unaffordable, and that the numbers don't work for investors.

Treat tenants poorly and tenants are going to treat you and your building the same.

And I'm sorry guys but poorly training your tenant is a fixable issue.

If you are looking for cash flow typically multiple unit properties are going to be your best bet but might require a little more work up front and there are not a lot of them around the area to scoop up right now.

Also, investor dominated buildings tend to be poorly run.

Have you ever had difficulty getting a loan with poor credit?

Are you betting on appreciation in your investment strategy?

I have basically 1) rewarded poor tenant behavior 2) tenant has no eviction on their record making it more challenging for a LL to determine that the tenant has been paid before and seeing it worked so well is likely to repeat the same $hit.  

That would put you between probably $3500-4500 depending on dp, property taxes etc. 85k salary, let’s say you are taking on home 60k, like even with house hacking, you’d simply at best be extremely house poor, at worst would be challenged to afford the mortgage, the vast majority of people buying homes in our area at this point in the cycle for a variety of reason are dual income households, tbh for a single person making 85k a year, you are just much better off renting or moving to locol area if remote or hybrid.