For instance, I'm under contract on a property right now and its main economic drivers are an army base and 3 major health care companies.

We usually provide 24 hours notice to tell them we coming to change out furnace filter OR test smoke detectors4) Get their contact info, drivers licenses, student ID numbers, parent contact info, send out an email in the beginning with EVERYONE on it so they know what to expect. 5) Take photos before the unit was occupied.

The very poor growth of supply of new housing in SF and new *highly* paid young workers moving to SF in the tens of thousands are the real drivers of price increases. 

Also some old guys pulled up, each with an open beer in one hand and an open whiskey in the other (including the driver) saying they had done maintenance on these homes years ago and I should hire them.

Driver around all the streets and look for vacant houses.

I just hope some poor unsuspecting BMW driver was not harassed by this guy!!

With that much down, you should be in the driver's seat, unless the property is marketable conventionally....if the seller advertised seller financing or it is ojn the listing, they expect to see such deals.I would not be afraid to walk away if your terms were not met, let the seller think about and lose sleep, then go back, maybe a little lower and come back up later on...whatever.If you don't have any credit issues that loan should go out at least three years, in fact a few months over might be better, like 40 months.

After spending the next two weeks watching every real estate video I could find, I was determined to purchase my first rental property.By this time, I had been eating free meals at the school dining hall, saving my ROTC stipends, and working three part-time jobs (campus taxi driver at night, finance internship two days per week, and ice hockey referee on weekend mornings).

The neighbor's include a coach and his wife, a truck driver (who parks his big-rig in the driveway), two families with small children that play in the streets every weekend, and a group of college students. 

Its not generally a huge demand driver.