Very quick, efficient and 100% drama free.

Though questionable if the deal has the money on it to do it.Maybe call the realtor's broker and ask for help, sometimes they stick their neck out to avoid future drama.   

There is a very harsh boundary in franklinton where this occurs (the train tracks).

With duplexes you are always taking care of landscaping and dealing with extra drama and a lower caliber of tenants. 

In fact that is not true as many learned the harsh reality in the great recession.

Drama between tenants.

This keeps me from a lot of drama of being the bad rich guy, their buddy or having to make split second decisions that may upset people. 

So many amatuers spend years agonizing over their first purchase until they find that "perfect" first deal, then they self manage with no experience, help or knowlege and destroy the deal and create all kinds of personal drama for themselves and their tenants. 

You don't want to pick up the drama that his family and him are in, and you simply aren't part of it.     

Cast iron tubs have a porcelain enamel finish and it will also eventually succumb to harsh cleaners and abrasives.Both type of finishes can be "renewed", but it is an added expense.