@Aaron PetersonI moved your thread to the landlords forum.Snow removal ... it will be here before you know it ... .I've already put our RFQ as we were not happy with our service in one city last winter.In our experience, when it comes to landscaping/lawncare and snow removal, anytime you cannot define where one tenant's domain ends and another begins, the obligation falls to the landlord.If you have a side-by-side duplex or a row of townhouses where each tenant has their own drive and patch of green, you can hand-off snow removal and lawn care to the tenant ... though you are just as often better served to take care of it yourself and bake it into the rent.Anytime you have stacked units or a block (such as a small purposely built quadruplex), the parking and green space are common areas (just like stairwells in the interior) and fall to the landlord.

The house was only 225k and it's a town home, the mortgage of the house is 1178 and the hoa fee was 180.

Come to the Real estate exchange club meetings, and Landlord's Almanac meetings when's you get to town. 

There are nice areas and sketchy areas within those parts of town just like a lot of other areas.    

Jack Murray Hard construction without foundation, you MIGHT make it at 60k. 900sf built at $60/sf?

There are a few other co-working space on other parts of town, most of which still have some co-working, but have made a transition to single offices and suites for small companies.  

We are billed quarterly by the town- receiving the bill about 1 month after the service date on the bill and payable about 3- 4 weeks from receipt.

This is just a start, but I think with a bit more information, you can avoid the usual answers here like, KC, Indy, Memphis, Austin, Cleveland, etc, etc (these are ALL fine markets, but I would assert that investing in any of those cities is NOT always the best choice for the out-of-state investor, based on answers to the questions above, as there are success stories on REI in almost every town in America).

Log beams built in 1860??

Lastly, if your able to buy using the 1% rule you have enough built in positive cash flow that will enable to ride out the downturn.