From a tax perspective you're are at a disadvantage if purchased as a rental property.

. $1700 NOI/month - $2149mortgage = -$449 (negative cashflow after I pay my mortgage)-$449 - 268PMI = -$717 (negative cashflow with PMI)From this perspective, the real-estate doesn't look like a good investment, although property depreciation and tax losses would offset some of these losses in the first few years. 

Looking forward to sharing advice and perspectives!

I believe LSU has an evening perspective member meeting each month in SA.  

you are allowed to walk the property to check the condition of the property for a maintenance perspective.

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If you make a tenant pay you to replace an 11-year-old range, sooner or later, your tenant is going to tell another tenant who will know someone who knows something about depreciation and explain that you're trying to profit greatly from this situation (from a tax perspective).

One point to remember when looking at this from a down payment perspective.

This also makes it so that I am not relying on the cash flow.I think where our perspective is different is that I believe that various indicators can be used to predict with a lot of accuracy whether a market is likely to have long term appreciation. 

If you plan on continuing to invest and have a long-term perspective, then creating an Opportunity Fund and investing in an Opportunity Zone property might be a better solution.What is it that you want or need?