If this is your dream retirement place, perhaps you use the LTR to simply subsidize your purchase even if it's not fully cash-flow positive. 

Originally posted by @Dan Ashley:Hey all,First time home buyer and my dream is to purchase a multi-family, reno and house hack in North Brooklyn.

The plaster shows mildew, and because it holds so much moisture, he has recommended taking down the damp plaster before the weight of it collapses.  

When you only want someone to sell you a dream, everyone will sell you that dream. 

If the inexperienced investor knew how much work, effort, time, analysis, negotiation, organization, capital, and knowledge it takes to successfully find, identify, evaluate, and close on a property that fits the criteria that gurus falsely claim they see 100’s of every day, 99% of them would abandon their real estate dreams” and pursue ostrich farms, mink breeding, or setting up a “down line” to sell condensed cleaning products that their “upline” has an exclusive distributorship on for the southwestern quadrant of Bisbee, Arizona.  

I would just feel like a dead weight and once they has the info they could ghost me. 

I bet you don't have any friends who want to do this at your age so when you tell people about your dreams they say it's crazy.

I've demo'd a bunch and found not a single one that's not either over-priced or saddled with an interface out of MS Word gone wild wet dream. 

This should transfer the weight of the room to the new support as the seasons change.  

This is like a dream scenario for you.