Don’t do clean up until the insurers inspect.5.  

Some offerr condos, towns and sfr and all do well because they are closer to Disney.

Do you rely on inspections, local contractors, the agent, or property managers to get eyes on it?

I'm also in Raleigh and have STRs in Western NC, but ours are closer to Asheville area. 

fixer, or closer to rent ready? 

The inspection showed more issues than we expected but the seller wasn't willing to negotiate so we cancelled in the due diligence period.

Gap is now closer to $205k 

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.

Here are some suggestions to help you secure funding and move closer to realizing your vision:1.

Just have the buyer do the inspection before making the offer.