If you're lender is requiring escrows it's too hard to predict but generally you're looking at another 1/2 to 3/4 point so that's 1.5% of your purchase price.

where are all of these experts predicting a housing crash?

How do I make as-close-as-possible predictions about some of the values in the calculator?

@John Suralik  subject too is a very old and easy method of acquiring RE its not big deal. what it is is uber risky for sellers unless the sellers have already lost their credit and don't care and are walking.. the reason is you take Title subject too  the existing loan.. remember loans stay in place unless paid off and even though all debt instruments have alienation clauses they are rarely envoked.

If those "eras" seem predictable, then why not?

If you're lender is requiring escrows it's too hard to predict but generally you're looking at another 1/2 to 3/4 point so that's 1.5% of your purchase price.

You can't predict the future, and the further away the future is, the less you can predict.  

This would save you the ~10% costs associated with selling a SFR, and also a more predictable timeline.

We recently had a case where we contacted the Chicago public health department and they were instrumental in intervention and supportive in our efforts to have the tenant notified that the unit be cleaned or vacated. 

These types will never be professionals, they lack the mind set to be in business, they are the wheeler dealers, the back lot car salesman, the door to door brush salesman, the "music man" who sold parents on his "think system" to play band instruments.