As matter of fact, I’m so interested that I moved with my family to Nova Scotia last summer 😜..

Your mention of using GRM as a first pass and then diving deeper into cap rates and IRR is exactly how I’ve seen some of the sharpest investors I know operate.I had a buddy in Chicago who bought a four-unit last year in Pilsen.

Nice work - have to get creative in the market these last couple of years

In addition, since the rule changes, it seems like many agents are delaying the whole conversation until the very last minute when the buyer has little or no opportunity to object, research, or think about what they are agreeing to, without risking losing the home they just decided to offer on.

I think behind tenant screenings and leases there is a quality of a landlord that's also as a person that is the respect for a good person and the intelligence of making fair affairs.For me for ten years in the past I had a house of 650sqft (two rooms and cozy kitchen) where I always have been giving away one of the room for others who were asking for help for themselves and I didn't had any earnings for me by that, and that has been during for many and many years, meanwhile I was surely needing more space for me, for my business in a studio and for my own personal life I eventually could have been having.Nonetheless this, on last years I had no more an house and I needed a room for rent, but even before any screening the landlords were being unrespectful and very unreasonably severe to me, they often had making me lose so much time by no taking or going away to the point I had no other choices in the end, and they set me in the wrong places for me, dangerous ones, too small, too big and very expensive, unhealthy ones or not providing anything at all when it was obvious they needed to.To me this kind of behaviour is very wrong, mostly because usually they are the same people who pretend respects and acts as they are very careful and attentive to housing situations in general, but with me, they have been lying above anything and just disrespected the person at a human level. 

For perspective, last April I closed on a new construction loan (build to rent) with a turnkey company there (Rent to Retirement).

Same year or last year violation doesn't matter to me.  

Even if the property was financed with debt in the last 12 months, capital gains are tax-deferred or tax-free within the Solo 401(k).4.

Here's the solution-- go find the realtor(s) that have worked that very area in the last 3 years.

On the advice of the fireplace guy who did our last cleaning/inspection, we sanded down the brick inside and painted it with the high heat black paint, and it states in the lease that they may use a fireplace-style candelabra if they'd like, but any other use will trigger all the rules in the Fireplace Addendum.