On the flip side, if you've got a bunch of Section 8 tenants living in a building that's in a neighborhood where a lot of the tenant base has good jobs, high credit scores, and are generally reliable people, you've got the most risky tenants in that tenant base and that ain't what ya want.

We do not use the credit score, we use the information on the credit report to gauge how long they have lived at addresses and what kind of judgements they have.

I live in the greater Naples area.

For a tenant who has only lived there for a year, the expectations for normal wear and tear are lower.

If you aren't going to be living in CR full time as you try to execute the deal I do not think it is physically possible for you to obtain a loan from Scotia Bank and not worth your time to try because the rates are so high. 

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Live in one unit and rent out the other three.

And the tenants still lived there, they had just been putting old mattresses, broken furniture, and crud there for years.

Quote from @Scott Mac: Safety - Inherit a fully paid for SFH, in decent condition, in the neighborhood you live in, and rent it out to long term tenants who you are comfortable with.

People need place to live, I and my investors need to safeguard my investment.