If you had a 110v one or two-burner cooktop, I wonder what the city would say about that?

I'm going to put this place on the back burner for now and watch to see when the seller come to his senses and drop the price.

Once I get a solid deal completed, and am nice and fat I start back at focusing on working out.

Offer a fat "finder fee" and they will bring the deals to you before looking anywhere else because they can earn a commission without having to do any work.I bought two investment properties in the past 18 months that were off-market.

From your description, it is possible the burner needs cleaned and serviced and stopping operations just allowed buildup to harden and/or break loose and become an obstruction - or a spider decided to make its home in burner {we had a furnace not relight as a result of this once} ... though at 2(ish) years of age, it shouldn't be that dirty.While it is possible a sensor has failed prematurely, I'd start with a service.

How to open the top of a stove to clean under the burners. 

If we could I would like to have the margages be low enough so we don't have to rely on the rent and it can just take care of it's own unit and anything left over I'll invest. to keep the momentum up we are ok staying here untill we have enough to put a fat down payment.We were thinking if the morgage taxes and insurance were about 500 to 600 a month we could comftorably live off her income. but I am not sure it's not exactly the sane as rent there are more expenses to owning a home

Being fat, ugly, no acting talent and I can’t sing

Even if I buy commercial at a lower cap rate (lets say 6%) and raise the value in repairs, rent increases and fat cutting to lets say 8.5%, my final cash on cash returns are still lower than a average to good SFR deal. 

Unless all contingencies have been released I myself have a buyer or two in the back burner.