I asked the seller to consider this absorbing this cost before I made an offer.  

If I went to get a judgement against this tenant for the balance of the lease (if I could even find them to serve court papers), the judge would tell me to go pound sand, absorb it as a business expense, go re-rent the apartment, move on with my life and quit bothering him with this "nonsense."

Absorb, learn, absorb, apply, make mistakes, and grow. 

I am trying to absorb it all.

The problem is that the ground can end up saturated, and then the water has nowhere to go - it can no longer be absorbed by the ground. 

I can absorb a slight tax hit and still be far, far ahead of the normal way of doing things.

You will have to get the unit ready for rent again by doing repairs, make ready and any potential retaliation damage by the tenant.  99.9% of Section 8 tenants are judgment proof so you have very little chance or recouping any damages  Can you absorb the lost rent due to this downtime ?

, however I have spent a lot of time on here reading and absorbing everything I could. 

Read the forums, listen to the podcast, absorb everything, ask questions, and start investing!

You'd have to build out an entire team on the ground that you know you can trust, and you'd have to absorb all of the upfront risk of a property (taking on the rehab, finding a tenant and placing them, etc).It all depends on how risk averse you are or aren't, how much you have in funds to start out, and what your ultimate goal is. :) Of course I'm going to echo the sentiment here that Ohio is great, but I suggest you do your own due diligence on any city you're seriously considering, then connect with either a reputable turnkey company that operates in that area, or find some people you can recruit to be on your team and really get to know them!