Sellers should also be open to alternative negotiations and market timing to maximize property value in shifting market conditions.Buyer Strategies: Buyers should explore off-market properties, distressed assets, and opportunities in gentrifying areas.

Alternatively, can you use either unit as an STR to increase cash flow even further?

RADD brings imo highly reputable folks to talk alternative investments that helps to possibly validate their business model, too.

But the neighbors told me when they built their house from ground 6 years ago, there was no issues for any building materials or trucks going through the alley. 3. the house is in historic district of Charlotte, meaning there are quite some restrictions on the exterior renovation. 

You can spend $5,000 and get your CDL to start driving trucks at a Dollar a Mile or $20 an Hour.

Alternatively, do you think it might be better to use the 200k to make down payments on higher-quality homes, i.e., ones that are almost rent-ready, and finance the remainder of those purchases with DSCR, etc.?

Like small enough to be 100% prefab offsite and then trucked in. 

Alternatively you can do the LOC (line of credit) on it so you can retain the home but are definitely subject to today's current rate environment.

Not when there are so many alternative methods of engagement towards resolve of which past clients have appreciated.

Apartments aren’t an alternative to these people.