Our 14 plex cost us $335k and produces over $6000/mo. in rents, plus we resell the utilities to the tenants and make money on that as well as the coin op laundry in the basement.

You might try Flipovitch & Co in Carlsbad.

If anyone can answer this question(s) with some clarity - SPECIFICALLY as relating to a recommended ET Co in the Raleigh NC area - I am greatly appreciative.  

I have worked the same strategy as you are now implementing (@Brandon Turner coined the term, house-hacking), only a little south of you in Philly!

Here are the trends I am seeing:-Many properties are preoccupied with some tenants being month to month and others not-All of the homes need updating, some more than others that need serious structural work-The asking price range is between 100K-200K in the market I am looking in-The rents seem to vary between 650-950 p/mth with some paying utilities and others not-Most of the properties have laundry units for the tenants that are not coin operatedHere are my concerns:Since I plan to make the property my primary residence it is difficult to overlook the flaws.

I would do it, Paul, since I have an s-corp prop mgt co in place.  

Coming from both sides of the coin, where I own rental property in another state but am renting now after relocating to a new area while I look for something to buy, I would never ask a tenant to show a property or want to be asked to show either. 

"A" may simply be buying himself that time with the balloon note.The other flip side of the coin - in the rare event he's not able to qualify in 1 year time- there's family. 

But flipping over the coin, Grasshopper, I've sold SFR rentals in the 30310 zip code, Oakland City area, to out-of-state investors, and there it was a plus, offering a safe, secure, ready-to-rent property is truly turnkey.  

I was flipping before that was a coined phrase.