Is this deal just a big red flag that I'm excusing by thinking of the appreciation?

If that doesn't work for the potential, in my opinion that may be a bit of a red flag for a problem tenant.

In the future, refusing to move something should be a red flag, and if you cannto properly inspect something, just factor full replacement cost into your price.

If you don't know what you'd like 5 years out then people are going to be proposing a lot of possibilities that won't have ground to take root in.The fact also stands that, without W-2 income, financing can be very hard without a lot of cash or a proven track record in real estate.

Let your tenants go do not make this experience more painful to the point of having property red tagged.

The numbers on this map are a mirror image of the Trulia crime maps - not much of a surprise here: rents are generally higher in Trulia green areas, then yellow, orange and red.

I don't know Auburn at all but prices seem way lower there than the west side of syracuse.As to your concern about success rate, not sure where that number comes from but I have not had any more trouble renting units in the city or out so that feels like a red herring to me.

In Redding, CA I am trying to get a separate meter installed on an ADU unit.

If that red wall is redgard coating, and you're going to tile it, I'd say before you do that go all in: open the wall, and replace the whole valve with a modern one where the cartridge is easily replaceable.

That's a big red flag to me as a buyer because a flip should be turn key in my opinion.