If overpriced, you with attract unqualified tenants. 

Duplex: While a fourplex may seem out of reach, focusing on duplexes for now is a sound alternative.

The city has attracted substantial investments from companies like Intel, Google, Honda and more driving job growth, increasing housing demand and boosting property values.

Anyone have experience with this alternative creative financing vehicle? 

For his firm, he has chosen to be compensated by managing traditional investment portfolios, so anyone using annuities would take away from his potential AUM so he tries to attract and convert them. 

That's not the alternative that I had in my mind.

Alternatively, you can try and figure out your DTI (debt-to-income ratio), that should give you a general idea as well.

A good PMC screens for and attracts the right tenants, for a much lower price. 

Do any of you experienced investors/landlords/property managers have effective strategies you use to make a unit more attractive?

The Sixers stadium can have the same impact on the Market Street corridor and last I checked, nobody has come up with a viable alternative for turning around Center City, particularly this area which is the most troubled.