I'd rather buy a cheap place based on a below market lease, so I can eventually collect the upside.  

If your parents own the asset then Medicaid will place a lien on the property and eventually sell it to pay for nursing home care. 

Her packages were left hanging from the mailbox or had dropped on the ground.She then intimated to our inherited live-in Maint guy (who we also eventually evicted) that she would fake a fall, sue & split the money. 

Im just thinking about, in the event I want to move out / purchase the next property, how much I may be paying out each month to hold on for potential/eventual payoff when I sell.And how long would it take for sufficient appreciation for a decent return? 

I would passively invest in an apartment syndication while I worked on my education with the goal of eventually buying my own deals or starting my own syndication business.

My issue is that I don't know if I need to start with a strategy like wholesaling to build capital that will eventually allow me to invest in rental/multi family or if there a different way to go about this?

They may be fine now, but in the summer the heat gets through the first layer of shingles and the second layer will eventually curl, causing flat pockets of water to form that will eventually leak down through and destroy the sheathing and the rafters/drywall underneath.

I would absolutely love to raise my price, but I don't want to shoot myself in the foot either, and just prolong the eventual sale. 

I was going to flip this investment property and take the profit and finish my mobile home and buy a second mobile home and rent out the first one. finish the second one and rent it out. eventually using the same process moving into a house let the rental income pay my mortgage and  flip houses. 

Eventually Mom got back on her feet and moved out just as things were hitting the fan in the real estate market.