(Most restoration companies don't renovate because margins are much lower renovating.

I know many great CPAs who structure their business so that they can deliver quality service at a lower rate.

I would like to know offer example such as offer to pay full 15% of commission, but lower rent or offer asking rent price with lower commission (such as 10%).Just a quick math, if I paid 12.5% in fee and $1650, then the equivalent rent would be $1856.25 = ($1650 x 12 + $2475)/12Another example would be, 15% in fee and $1550 is $1705 = ($1550 x 12 + $1860)/1210% in fee and $1750 in rent is $1925 = $1750 x 12 + $2100)/12 (this would be higher than the current offer...)So I guess the math says, lowering the rent will help over all cost for me...?

If you plan to scale, i think lower maintenance and lower headache (ergo, newer) is the way to go (for me). 

trulia, hotpads I suspect your budget is lower than the market.

It takes 7 to 10 years for that cost to get paid off from your lower utility bills. 

I could see why renting by the bedroom with lower rent might be appealing. 

A few more seasoned investors have told me, perhaps controversially, that most cities place such onerous zoning restrictions and are completely inactive in aiding affordable house because lower income and lower-mid income residents are such a net loss to the cities, i.e. little tax revenue and big consumers of city services.

I attended one of this company's auctions last weekend just to get a feel for how these private estate auctions go, and it kind of went like this: auctioneer asked for an opening amount, no one bid, one of the auctioneer helpers bid it lower, then some people started chiming in, and it went back and forth between a few people before finally ending about 25% higher than the number the auctioneer started at. 

Hard Money is used to close quickly and in theory, they could have lower out of pocket to you if the numbers worked right.