Appreciate your advice.Hey Kyle, sounds like it'd definitely be worth having a conversation with your cousin and expressing those frustrations to see if he's willing to accommodate.

Here is the definition: Negligence is unintentional but irresponsible conduct that leads to an injury.

However, if your house is surrounded by boarded up houses and old cars in the lawn, your medium term rental will definitely suffer.

This is definitely the way to go.

Real estate by definition is speculative for the most part but value usually increases over time all things being equal (Absent cataclysmic events). 

@Bill J Fay Im definitely on board with you and will not use them anymore.

That is, they just keep working and trading their hours to save up more capital, versus the mindset of having the actual investment quickly repaying the capital.These questions will lead you down the correct investment path for YOU.

I can definitely tell you there's still a lot of positive cash flowing and 1% rule deals and you get amazing appreciation.

Given that you own the land outright, there is definitely an opportunity to make a deal work here.

I think the issue would be finding the right place, I shared property with a mobile home park during the 3 years I lived in Boulder and the bike path runs throughout the city so that might be something worth looking into!