On a side note, oddly, the tenant before her was also a single woman, around the same age, stayed in the apartment for 10 months, no communication or heads up, left around the same time of the year.

What about the utilities, property taxes, maintenance and repairs, capex, etc. are any of those optional for you?

If you come to my with me on the retreat in April, I will explain every single detail of the process.

I've been previously working on acquiring single-family units via the house hacking method but this year, I'm shifting gears to take my goals to the next level. 

For example, are you looking for coaching for large multifamily, storage facilities, short-term rentals, mobile home parks, how to scale a single-family portfolio, or any other specific real estate strategy?

And this might indeed require some time to pass before doing that.You could still create a single member LLC with either you or your wife as member. 

They sell a 4 unit for close to 1 million dollars close to Jacksonville. they want 250k or 300k down. there's no upside. you can google the properties on biggerpockets and there isn't a lot of satisfaction. it's a slow return and get rich slow strategy. our focus is always as a builder to add maximum value, lower cost as low as possible, build and rent and build and sell the same product and raise prices to help investors out. we have a large market share and large purchasing power in our market in columbus ohio. the one strategy I never liked about turnkey new build brokerage companies like them and build2rent or others is they don't really build close to urban centers and most are single family homes. the numbers don't work on single family homes. if single family was the way to go more companies would be doing it. but by far the most common type of new construction built is three story walk up apartments.

Are you looking for multifamily or single family home?

Detached HousesWhen in doubt, consider the tried-and-true detached single-family house.

Those DG buildings are built cheap and I don't like single tenant risk in a town of 2,000 people.