@Michael Plante We live entirely off a base salary after taxes of $4562 a month ($1000 mortgage, prop taxes, insurance, food, vacation savings, etc) and I also make about $5000 a month in commissions.

The type of tenants you get are service workers at Medical Facilities, Labor Technicians, Tier II wage earners in the various UAW Plants.  

@Michael Plante Just have the attorney you are going to use for the closing provide you one?

There are a lot of different crops that are planted in that area as well. 

You could do that and put one under each unit window and plant greenery & perennial flowers.

No smoking/no plants is a must have lease policy now in Canada.

These travelling workers are contractors, the guys you see working on the large upright structures of steel at a petrochemical refinery and nitrogen fertilizer plant. 

I've been a dormant and sporadic listener for some time now, but the little seed planted the very first time I heard you all has taken root!  

@Vincent Plant you're missing a few things.... 1 is holding costs.

By using solar lights for street lights, solar leasing for owners instead of only grid energy, using under ground water to water plants etc.