@Bruce Runn It was a nicely remodeled starter home in Como (with older mechanicals).

You will hire an engineer who will likely use a scope behind the walls to ensure electrical/ plumbing/ mechanical rough ins have been done correctly.

Reasons are as followsThe cash flow margins are too thin for our businessIt's a guarntee that there will be a major expenditure that will eat/destroy the cash flow- I'd purchase the property with a home owners warranty to cover all mechanical systems.We'll take thin cash flow if there's an upside appreciation expectation or an ability to renovate & increase the value & pull cash out- There's none of that hereThe reasons I wouldn't purchase it are based on my current business plan, hence why I wouldn't do it. 20 years ago though I may have purchased this home just to get into the business.

I’m a mechanical engineer and project manager and have a solid job here in Maine, but like so many folks I’m looking to get out from the 9-5.

@Lee GuinnDusty just asked a similar question in this thread:https://www.biggerpockets.com/...I reviewed some mechanics on wholetailing but not wholesaling.

For the past 4 years I have been working as a commissioning agent so I am constantly looking at the Mechanical/Electrical/Plumbing side of commercial buildings, and I am always in the position of working as the owner’s eyes and ears during construction or renovation.I have lived in Gilbert Arizona, east of the Phoenix metro area, for over 10 years.

They are a tax savings mechanism, pure and simple.

I made minor repairs to mechanicals and replaced an aging garage roof but didn't really invest much else.

You tell the plumber to get it from the tenant.How long before you notice you now have a mechanics lean on your property?

Is that just cosmetics, or are you touching mechanical systems for that?