However, if your house is surrounded by boarded up houses and old cars in the lawn, your medium term rental will definitely suffer.

The contractor I used did it more as a favor so I will need to reach out to others so see who will be on board.  

One by the county for unpaid sewage, bankruptcy, and the city was shutting off his electricity and boarding the place up because he inherited the house a year ago when his mother passed and never started probate.

We've already agreed not to touch high-risk states like my home turf, California – 100% on board with that.

The tenants I accept think the freeloaders are unrealistic and are raising rents across the board.

If I were younger (I’m pushing 50) and my SO was more on board with the whole real estate investing program I would be moving into a new low down payment property every 14-15 months as soon as I had raised the money for a new down payment.

And again, this is my market and area of town, but tenants like the character of the older home with the tall base boards, hardwood floors, arched doorways between rooms, etc.  

Most FSBOs trying to save money and probably don't use an attorney to write the contract...or they go to a general practice attorney, who hasn't seen this before, when they probably should be using a Board Certified Real Estate attorney, or one who is practicing real estate law for advice and approval of the contract they want to use. 

@Bill J Fay Im definitely on board with you and will not use them anymore.

Thanks  That would be textbook mortgage fraud, which you’ve now just publicly stated on message board, you are going to need to live in the property for the year, than you can rent out.