Seems like a lot of the well known and successful investors started with buying a duplex, rent 1 side, and live in the other; or some variation of that.

A slight variation of this is  the broker that sets up the note sale for a fixed price, and receives a commission from either or hopefully both parties.The other way brokers operate are more like wholesalers.  

You will still have a little  positive cash flow and he will be getting close to what he was getting before without all of the hasles of being the landlord.You may be able to mix some variation of all 3 ways.

I've found so much variation in property taxes rates from city to city and between County and city that I always look it up.

Compare property APN to mortgages: if one mortgage and one APN, then you need to subdivide and likely a zoning variation.

This is good because there will be variation if both the power generated (summer is more than winter) as well as power used (typically AC is large electricity user and typically at worse in Aug and Septempber (but not so much this year)).My point is that I suspect the lease will not be as bad as you have calculated. 

I think we all have an idea of what it should be, but every market can have multiple different companies with their own variation of a Turn-Key investment.Jon Holdman I think I recall when i wrote that forum post, you were definitely commenting and in the same manner as on this post.

There are a few items on your tax return that could call for income recalculations IF not revealed at time of application: lower allowed self-employment income, lower allowed rental income, unreimbursed employee business expenses, alimony, dividend and interest income, wide variations in commission/bonus income from prior years.You have a nonstandard transaction that a nonportfolio lender would carefully scrutinize.

- Most lenders will lend between 65-75% of the resale value, and may offer a variation such as 80-90% of purchase price including or excluding rehab costs up to 100%.

Most of the methods are the same or variations of one's that have been utilized for over 50 years.