Congrats on your success so far and to future success as well!

If they’re not able to assist, I also have other LAIC referrals as well that will just provide the service only.

But I've seen some solid properties in Akron as well that had good cash flow, but definitely seeing rents in Cleveland a bit higher right now

How well will it cashflow?

Stop hanging out with your deadbeat buddies who spend all day drinking, talking sports, and otherwise wasting away.

this works well if the tenant is a national user or multi unit operator who has built these buildings many times. 

But ya have to make some educated prognostications in life.Add this to the information your processing - What your talking about doing is eliminating around $4000 or interest expense (which is deductible anyway so really could be a real impact of eliminating $2800 or so) of debt in exchange for paying over $10K in capital gains tax (don't forget possible state gains tax as well).  

I have another rental a few streets away that has done very well.

I think I have a name of a attorney in Houston area that knows tax sales well. 

If you have a buyer's agent, you should have already signed a buyer's representation agreement and that fee/commission is disclosed in that document so you should very well know what that charge will be.If you were the seller and going to owner finance the property, what would you want to see from the buyer that tells you that they will be able to pay the mortgage moving forward.