When someone goes after a landlord, is there a certain range that settlements typically fall within?

Normally it ranges from half a month to a month rent.

With $20k in savings and an additional $4k monthly saving rate, I'm navigating my next steps carefully, especially since I value starting with a substantial equity position in any deal.Here are the options I'm contemplating:Invest in a Low Entry Property: With my capacity for a 20% down payment, I'm considering properties in the $100k-$120k range.

That's why the range of the loan amount varies and the timing varies, it just depends on your credit and how many cards they can get for you.

Your primary insurance policy with $300,000 in liability coverage should be sufficient in 99.999% of all lawsuits.5.

We have done multiple deals in this price range.

As a seller, I'd prefer having due diligence money that I can credit back to buyer at closing but it's mine if they release, as I've dealt with too many buyers nit-picking over $10 inspection items like the oven range safety thing or use the inspection period to back out if a better deal hits the market or try to negotiate a lower price even if no big issues found, and I think due diligence money solves those problems.  

I have ran the numbers on many calculators with a purchase range of 200-300k and the math just ain’t mathing (break even or negative per month). 

Housing for workers or even Airbnbs could be less lucrative but have less overhead because the tenants are self-sufficient.

But the range of possibility is  why everyone's been pointing you to your CPA to get specific.But from a horse shoes and hand grenades level of granularity - you can access that $500K (realizing a net of $400K after taxes.