This poor girl, didn't understand the difference between prepaid insurance and insurance expense and I may as well have been speaking Greek to her. 

That place looks like a girls first apartment, not an executive home. 

A guy or girl making just ok wages is not going to want to make tough calls for you in many cases.

My first baby girl was born.2016: Got a little cocky and went to penny stock trading, and thought making money was easy and quick, lost roughly 20% of my net worth during that period (not so successful experience but it was a good lesson).2017: Felt a little depressed after a big loss in the stock market and thought really deep about what I should do to recover from the loss.

My goal for this home is to be a "hub" for my family (settling down with a girl & puppy) and for my future RE investments.

@Earl Hatmaker mostly because it requires me to leave my family (wife and two young girls) and the heartache almost debilitated me at times.

It is amazing that just yesterday a young girl posted here that she is tired of the rat race and quit her job to UBER, and look for Realestate.  

When my wife the our two girls on vacation for a month this past summer, I stayed behind, the average water bill of $175/month fell to $85.00.

She was a nice girl, seemed honest, I felt bad for her and gave her a place to live.  3 months later I had my first eviction, thankfully it went well and it wasn't too expensive of a lesson for me.

(Fancy all-girls school).I hear you on including the vacancy and cap expenditures.When I look on the MLS this house should go for more than $180K,  (it was appraised at between $180-$200K) but the owner is willing to sell it to me because she wants to live there until she can move to an assisted living facility.