my experience in SC which is basically limited to building about 35 new builds in Charleston market and funding a few flippers up by Augusta and a few flips in N.

While $300K may not yield high returns in your market AND presumably limit you to smaller deals with less doors/units, the same amount could align you with a group of investors purchasing dozens of units elsewhere.

Certainly more options because you are no longer limited by imaginary boundaries of traffic and time.

If your goal is to grow faster, buying rent ready properties isn't the usual way to do that if you have limited funds to start with.

Finally, The rent control discourages further development, limiting supply which results in higher rents.So rents go up, but the rent control advocates are too uneducated on the economics of the rent control policy to see their role in the rent increase.Another consequence of rent control is no value in keeping the property as nice.

Repairing to sell might recoup some costs, but given the market and your limited funds, selling “as-is” is likely the best option to minimize further losses.

Pretty much everything I have seen and read is:Find out the sellers motivation/problem and speak to solving that issue.Give an offer but explain how you got your numbers.Other than that, it seems pretty limited for negotiating information. 

Limited capital means that partnerships will help us move faster while the environment is profitable.

No limits to late fees either.

POHs inherently contribute to elevated expense ratios due to their operational demands, and this effect is magnified when the number of homes is limited, as fixed costs are distributed across fewer units.