Its too easy, when you go at it alone, to talk yourself out of something or have self doubt. 

Unless you want it vacant so you can rehab, in which case you might as well have it vacant during a time where you probably couldn't fill it anyway...you want it read to go, at market rent,  when the market for finding a tenant is hot.How big of a rehab and time frame to do the work?

Honestly i have no clue which angle he was ultimately trying to go at, but it sounded like he works with a lot of investors who own real estate that produce more deductions than they have in income to claim on taxes, the point he kept repeating was that you can calculate how much income on a property could maximize the usage of all your deductions, then either pay down to this point and maintain it, or refinance the property in a shorter mortgage to gain income and bring the level back up to this level every so many year or after paying it off. 

We have been in the talks about this for over 2 months now and I have been gathering different ways and plans to go at this, like different loan types for foreign buyers and even me as a buyer of the homes (with their money as down payments) and do rent to own type deals, as in they basically rent until they own the whole thing.

I’m 4 years into a bachelors in graphic design with 2 left to go, at 25 years old.

There was no max amount that could be charged over the years, or limit to how high or often the HOA fees could go. At

I want goats and chickens that will provide fresh eggs, meat and milk.

Just don't go at it alone and that's why BP is awesome!

So the title might be a little extreme, but this is our first go at this and aren't sure. 

I may not have been terribly clear the first go at it.I was considering the examples you gave.