My point is....there are tons of funds that have excess capital and nothing to do with it.

They could "loan" you the money as interest only and gift the interest back to you each year (with spouses you can do in excess of $40K per year).

I know of a couple investors who bought there using a new build to rent developer in Conroe who later found that rents were not as anticipated because of excess inventory.

I also include in each welcome packet a step by step for how to call the power company and report an outage as well as how to reset a flipped breaker.This tenant has been short term so far and has had issues paying rent every month, and makes excessive requests (in frequency and in "reasonable-ness").The tenant is not responsible for deciding if a handyman is needed, but if one is called out and it isnt a landlord responsibility, shouldn't that go back to the tenant? 

Even if we bump the vacancy up to 10%..... 20% (or $8,520/year) for maintenance seems excessive.

If you get a loan to buy it initially, the entire platted lot will be taken as collateral, you'd have to survey the excess land off and refinance the duplex on a smaller lot to free it of any encumbrance, or survey off the excess and only finance the purchase on a smaller lot if the seller can do the subdivision for a new legal description.

Excess stock from homebuilders, big box stores and generous homeowners.http://www.habitatpinellas.org/restore/about_the_restore/

I am not a propane rental expert so hopefully others can chime in.Is there a way for the tenant to use an excessive amount of propane and run the auto fill monthly cost very high??

That's how I raised in excess of $80 million in the last 13 years from limited partners.

In BK, any excess equity in property can be taken to sale to cure debts outstanding, even with installment contracts and any DIL filed just prior to BK would certainly be nullified as disposing of property will have issues, not only for the debtor but the creditor as well, that's not a good course of action.