Quote from @Max Emory: @Mary Jay, the $800-$1k sounds like phantom cash flow or spreadsheet cash flow that gets eaten up by repairs/maintenance, turnover, vacancy, CapEx, etc.I've owned rentals (with leverage) since 2019 and our REI bookkeeping firm has serve tons of landlords.

I have a neighborhood grade map that I can share.

Those tend to be the neighborhoods that are gentrifying.Unique stuff to Pittsburgh I would say is don't go based on zip codes since one zip code can be composed of multiple different areas/neighborhoods.

However, there wasn’t much residential use and I couldn’t figure out where the housing neighborhoods are.

My last remodeling co. was a specialty Design Build firm.

Since you're familar with commerical development, most enginering firms, and attorneys work on both residential and commerical. 

@Robert Gorra - I've had a similar experience where I've had a really hard time with getting GC's to even give me an estimate, and the few that have have been way overpriced (ie, they want me to put in $20k of cabinets in a budget flip) or have had their prices go up by about 40% and still not give me a firm price when I try to nail down the scope of work.

I also hire one of the big national 20 CPA firms to review returns every 2-3 years. 

To avoid that, set a firm, realistic budget from the beginning and make sure you stick to it.

In general duplexes will be less than $200k in most Cleveland neighborhoods.