I have a pretty large emergency fund in place for those properties, but I wonder if that capital could be better employed elsewhere (potentially acquire another property).  

I will be living in the guest house, while renting out the main.Both units are without washer and dryer units, my question is, do I supply them in the main house; or let potential tenants figure that one out?

It had better be a great deal to be worth dealing with all this headache and taking on this risk. 

Simply put the risk of a non-renewal costs more.

I am an accidental builder IE lent to builders who went busto and had to take over the projects. that was in 2013 muddled my way through the first 4 projects that I had to take over .. then felt WTF I am putting up all the money basically and taking the lions share of the risk why dont I just try to do it all..

If you can rent it for $2,000/month, after fees, taxes, and potential maintenance costs, you’d still make a decent passive income.

Combine that with insurance raising rates not just for dropping licensee count, but also to cover increased lawsuit risks.

We don't have any significant storms, floods, earthquake, wild fire or hurricane risks, which keeps insurance cost affordable.

Of course, not everybody is that good at or has the time to do Google searches or know how easy it is to use ChatGPT so it might still make sense for you to provide such a guide to your (potential) clients.If you don't want to spend time reinventing the wheel, you have other easy options:a.

.- Now Foreclosures may be a good discount but at the same time I already know that there is aLOT more risk to this.I already have a real estate agent, a mortgage broker, and am getting connections to contractors and so forth.My few Questions are:- Do I need a real estate agent in this process for foreclosures?