A single investor purchased a building in an upscale condo complex and leased all units to Section 8 tenants.

While they are the obvious ones, they are much less impactful to building a solid partnership.

Quote from @Evan Ross: One of the most common mistakes I see with amateur landlords: attempting to build goodwill with their tenants.

Find an agent with a team that you can build a longterm working relationship with that will make sure you won't overpay for a property and overall will land you an actual deal.

Point being that property you acquire 1-2 years ago is likely to be subject to deferred maintenance and capex, so their "long term" performance in rankings 1), 3) might skew poorly in year 1-2 but may pickup  after you've found and fixed all the hidden issues.I know if i did this exercise across my portfolio, the recently acquired ones wouldn't be fairly "stacked" because of all the year 1-2 cost build up from what the seller deferred, but have good chances at being future performers in years 3-5.Maybe that's why you have 2) and 5) but curious your general thoughts here are for evaluating this. 

The wholesaler created new terms with the tenants and the wholesaler plans to hold it so that the new loan gets seasoned, before selling the note.I opted not to get involved and have started my knowledge building into private lending.

I was planning on building the home in the traditional stick built style in my budget but am wondering if doing prefab may save some money/have other benefits.

How do you build trust so quickly in a new market? 

If you are still willing to stay in the same unit as your brother you can get a 2-4 unit building, rent out the other units and still rent a bedroom within your unit to your brother for extra income.

Through Zillow, and this was a new build.