We also decided to stop contributing to them in order to save for a down payment faster.

If your excuse is that you don't care and you didn't contribute to the condition of Detroit keep quiet and don't try and ruin investors experience that are trying to invest in the city and correct the issue. 

Personally I believe, not all, but most people on Section 8 are of a certain socioeconomical demographic which tend to have a different set of problem solving and coping skills in life (which can be a contributing factor to destruction of property more than others) and that in and of itself is what makes me shy away from the idea of Section 8 tenants. 

For example, you contribute $10k, and your partner contributes $90k.

The score is weighted such that the more-correlated metrics (#1 and #2 on the list) contribute more points than the less-correlated metrics (#3 and #4).

We have one friend/investor ready to contribute 25% debt capital towards acquisition costs, as our offer has been accepted by the seller (REO). 

This contributes heavily to turnover, which will kill the performance of a cheap rental property.One last thing- when looking at large scale market data... remember that this data is often collected at the county, or even metro area level.

I am not a CPA, and I don't play one on the internet, so this is just my opinion.That said, with a ROTH IRA, you are allowed to withdraw 100% of your contributions (but not gains made on those contributions).

I don't have much to contribute Adam but I logged onto the forum this evening because I'm considering a similar purchase.

I do not have any issues contributing the match to my ROTH IRA since I get a 50 percent return on my money for the match at least, I just do not like the Idea that I can use that money without incurring a penalty if my first deposit is not longer than 5 years.