More so than Bitcoin can ever aspire to be, there is a fixed, extremely limited quantity of land.Property holders divvy it up among themselves in exchange for "valuable consideration".Thus, the term, Real Estate.

Negative cash flow can hurt even if it is tiny but it appears you getting nearly 15K$ appreciation a year. 

Hi Glenn,  If you have the cash for multiple properties then you need to spend a tiny bit of it and go BP PRO.  

Maybe the lot next to them is also available providing some flexibility.Some combination of the above items.We have a duplex in an expensive area (Far over $1M for a little tiny duplex - maybe 1100' total). 

They're probably just clams with aspirations of becoming starfish one day.But if you're finding a large quantity of sellers who happen to be turned off by your investor status, maybe the problem is you're looking in the wrong markets.

With that many supposedly empty dwellings, you have no idea if the population declined that tiny amount because so many people are living between the cracks.Unless some affordable housing starts getting built somewhere in the USA in the near future, I see a lot of people landing here, not because they want to, but because they have no other choice at their price point (zero).

I could import a tiny home (mobile home) without issue but an actual house I had issues with.Any thoughts on this? 

He also randomly pointed to areas of "flaking" paint around the trim of the home and window trim on the second floor that were "too high up to test" so it must be "assumed that they have lead paint" and we needed to hire a de-leading contractor to scrape away and remove these random tiny spots of "flaking" paint.

Owner Financing should help you with buyers (the quantity, the price, and the financing).

A 988sf roof w/ a 6/12 pitch is only 1,105 square feet of roofing w/ a 10% material waste that's ~12 squares of shingles.Roof Quantity CalculationOakridge roofing shingles are $140/sq at Lowes.12 squares*$140/square = $1,680 in shingle materials + a few hundred dollars of underlayment and flashings, so there shouldn't be more than $2,000 in materials.So in other words your Contractor has quoted you $9,000 for labor for a roofing job that will likely take a crew of 3-4 guys one to two days tops.