Even if you break even, you will lose money every month it sits vacant, when you need repairs, property management, etc.

You can't even get an officer to a traffic accident anymore and how many domestic violence situations happen with little to no attention.  

Most mortgages aren't "assumable" (able to be transferred) and even if it is the new borrower would need to qualify the same as the original borrower.

If a tenant causes a claim, why should the landlord's insurance pay - possibly resulting in an increase in premium or even a cancellation of the policy?

How do you even know if things will work out?

We even got a storage locker to keep things I find but that became expensive, too 😊I'm now not afraid to spend a bit more on finding the design I'm looking for.  

A lot of times CPAs are so bogged down with compliance work that they can't even think about doing advisory.

We built a single family home version of a 2 bed 1 bath with surface parking at cost with no profit all in with land for 175k in newark ohio, a suburb of columbus ohio. when we push that to 3 units and closer to the city for our build to rent model the numbers go way better. a 30k slab for a single family home is 30k, a 30k slab for a triplex is 10k a door. we designed a 2 bed 1 bath design at 668 sq ft and it's very good layout even I would live there, but I would never build anything that small again. there's no economies of scale. you need density and shared lines, resources, shared roof shared slab, shared windows, etc the cost goes way down.

That might even be enough to make it hard to be hired by a traveling nurse agency.BTW, I am not a lawyer that can give legal advice.

I wouldnt give any consideration to what the seller needs in order to break even in determining the purchase price.