Legitimate lenders will only send funds to a neutral party after they’ve vetted you and your deal, received the signed loan docs they provided, received/reviewed your title prelim, evidence of hazard insurance, and a host of other requirements.Nor should you be sending any personal credit info to anyoneor accepting drivers licenses or other phony baloney info from the “lender” as some sort of proof that they are real.

It’s cash flow neutral now, but can definitely be raise 500-700 a month.

I likely would be net neutral on the SFH but garnering the potential appreciation of the Charlotte market. 

Painting an "offensive" color room to a neutral.  

It’s just more common that we follow the rules and regs in our contracts and the title company is the neutral third party that sees that the contract is executed as written.If you are a buyer outside of Arizona, the title company will arrange a remote signing and send a notary to your home or office or local coffee shop to get your pre-closing paperwork signed.Actually you never have to step foot in Arizona to buy a property here.

I've seen formulas like props for sale / props sold in the last month: <5 its a sellers market, >7 its a buyers market, and in between 5-7 is neutral.

I own too many units for my W-2 to cover the debt, but not enough to cover that .25 on a large property if it’s negative or neutral.

There are some products out there that will neutralize the smell like Nature's Miracle sold at pet stores, but chances are you will need to replace. 

In Newton it will be virtually impossible to meet the 1% rule, and I would instead focus on whether the properties are cash-flow positive (ideal), cash-flow neutral (acceptable) or cash-flow negative (not good).

For the sake of this question, let's use a $200,000 home(s) for my below example:If all other factors are neutral, say one had $120,000 worth of equity to put down for a leveraged investment, would one traditionally benefit more from putting all of that equity into a single property (more equity, lower interest rates, no PMI, lower monthly payment etc) OR would one typically benefit more by investing at or below the traditional 20% down and purchasing 3 properties with $40,000 down for each (more portfolio diversity, risk mitigation, potentially more cashflow etc)?