We have kind of a high rate on our transfer taxes here.

I think it's kind of funny that people always talk about doing your own due diligence as I thought that was pretty assumed with any investment, but I guess there are some people who may buy blindly like they do with stocks or whatever.

What kind of help you would expect from an agent when you are using one.

You need to understand how to evaluate a property and the kind of return it will produce, then evaluate properties until you find one that works.2.

. - Mindset's conditioned in a kind of FOMO position from covid bull-run, a stimulus action that present's a buyer surge, and a sold price surge, may be the spark for a real tangible bubble creation appreciation frenzy as those act upon FOMO to "grab the profit's" or "get in before it's too late", ignoring market basis fundamental's, thus in a feed-back-loop of rapid appreciation, ie "bubble". - I do not see risk in seller finance side of things as i don't see potentiality of mortgage rates dropping below 6% in any enduring manner.

This sounds like a SFR and if so it is typical that the tenant is responsible for these kind of items.

Because of this, I'm forced to give all kinds of breaks and leeway.

I always, ALWAYS go financial first, replacement second, and if IF there is not a really good concurrence there than I add in comparable solds because in commercial there is rarely an accurate comparable sold far as "like kind" is concerned.     

If so, what kind of criteria do you have for your new location?

Compare how you would expect this home to perform as a rental with reasonable assumptions about cap ex, vacancy, repair etc and then figure out what kind of rental or possibly RENTALS (multiple) you could purchase if you sold this property and how would they perform.