They just let me know they can pay half on April 1 and the other half next week after they move in. 

A local BOCES college built a 900 sq ft 'modular' home & auctioned off for $42,000 & I bet we could have built it for half that.

If you're not fixing it yourself, you'll have half the cost of the appliance in the labor and the parts on virtually anything.

In Fall 2022 I bought a 3/2 (half of a duplex) in a neighborhood that’s in the early stages of up and coming, my thought was to get a rental to break even or lightly cash flow and appreciate over time as the neighborhood improved.

Less than a half point difference I think I would stick with the fixed.

Turned that $43,000 into $110,000 : took us about year & a half ... after that we began scaling.  

I'll leave you a link to a house with a "delinquent tenant" being sold at half price as evidence of the severity of the situation.URL Idealista: https://www.idealista.com/inmueble/103002911/"!

I would save half of the rent for repairs, vacancy and general maintenance.

Househacking is your easiest way in.

We got a faint smell from time to time for a year...pulled the toilet half a dozen times, before finally realizing the problem.