Then you would get the most benefit from the bleed over from any improvements you make.Also make sure you are pushing rents up not down.

The best way to ensure success is to be able to have a tenant buyer use a credit improvement service that puts new positive marks on their credit.Regarding double closing on sandwiches, a truly unique way of avoiding two closings is to use a reverse assignment, where you as the investor places a 2nd mortgage in second position and reverse  assigns back to the seller, which avoids the need for transactional funding and two closings

In a small town full of dilapidated homes, my family is trying to buy property and improve the town, one house at a time.

Therapy animals provide people with therapeutic contact, usually in a clinical setting, to improve their physical, social, emotional, and/or cognitive functioning.I would also add one more point that is often misunderstood; with the millions of men & women who experienced combat in the US Military, hundreds of thousands return home with PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder).

On average, they have been small (<1800sf) 4 bedrooms that cost around $80,000, needing $20,000 to $35,000 in improvements, and appraising around $140,000.  

It definitely needs some tlc from the outside, which don't have a problem with because I can make improvements and there is a lot of room for rent increase.

(B) "Property" means real property located in this state improved by virtue of a dwelling having been erected on the real property.

I eventually got it to work with a great deal of fiddling around.Any improvements to the posting window would be a big help as I have had trouble with this before.

On the surface this seems very good, to improve the neighborhood and discourage slumlords and problem tenants.  

I have, but will not again, buy a property that has had substantial improvements done by the homeowner.