(You should read The 10X Rule if you haven't).And maybe one day you'll be the retired real estate investor at a retirement home who has a killer development deal for the 90-year-old civil engineer who never quit taking action either.

So that means there are some killer deals to be found with less competition!

no not a deal killer at all.

Tim, no one is going to read through 129 page document before buying a place in hopes of finding the one sentence deal killer. 

It gives piece of mind for large capex repairs in year one, and that first year can be a killer if the HVAC goes out. 

I also work full time and my goal is to generate some passive income on the side so I dont have to find that killer deal in order to buy.

The new house has some killer feature specific to your family that your last home lacks.

Never have any services in a landlords name.That is a deal killer for me as a investor.

You are doing business with family and if your brother has no money and high credit card bills along with getting married ( assuming his bridge to be's family is taking care of the wedding cost ), this sounds like a relationship killer waiting to happen.

So ok deal in a killer location.