A cost segregation study with an engineer and audit protection can easily cost less than $5k. 

Many investors were easily putting 10% down and taking up many of the homes for sale.

Your rent can move easily, not your mortgage (unless you want it to).

The good news is that in these types of cities, there are significantly more properties for sale (albeit at lower price points), and you can gain traction with a few houses per month more easily than in tougher markets like Tampa or Dallas, for example.

This sets you up for succession planning as well, if you ever wanted to sell the gas station operations but maintain the real estate for the passive income that sets you up to do so easily.

If they are professional, they can explain this quickly and easily.

This also allows for property owners to more easily write-off assets that get damaged/destroyed as the value of these assets is determined as part of the study.

That way you're not locked into the deal without getting an estimate and if the rehab budget comes in higher than $65k you can easily walk away- make sure the assignment says EMD is refundable if you do decide to walk.The 70% rule is a great rule of thumb.

So now coming out of things the Fed is saying wow we need to come back down to a more gentle altitude, and to keep from turning this into a vomit-comet let's do this "easily", slowly, gently.....

Had some vacancies which is normal, some major capital expenses handled easily but nothing drastic happened.