and frankly most landlords send a technician to fix things, not go there themselves, same goes for lawn care, usually you have a company that comes every week/other week, you do not need to be there.... 

You'll have to keep escalating this to get it resolved as the national PMC you hired is probably using poorly trained VAs who don't know/care/authorized to fix the problem.What do you mean about the, "undisclosed maintenance markup fees"?

Expect 30-year fixed terms for the most part.

If the mortgage payment is fixed (so large part of expenses is fixed cost), the cash flow will increase as the rents increase.  

Disclosure: Previous, current and future purchaser of Matt Scott's services.I have personally used Matt Scott and Incite Venture Capital to create my fixed income fund.

Once I have fixed it up and rented it out, I can make seller finance payments to her.

Well, unless we want to go at it from the legal end, which wouldn't be worth it in our case...If the wardrobe (think cheapo ikea) is fixed to the wall, the appraisers we have used consider that "Builtin" YMMV

The ones who bought cheaper properties trying to fix up had mixed results with one getting hustled by a contractor and definitely going into the red.

All fixed fee with out of scope offerings as well.

Purchase some class a/b 4 units at 25 down on fixed 30 year mortgages.