They have all the great aspects of apartments but without the headaches (ideal parks are where tenants own the homes so r&m is drastically reduced).

So my thoughts on this are they trying to reduce their risk or force customers in to another product.

After a lot of stress and lost bids, it's nice to finally have my first deal.

However, if you live in the county working in Philly there is a reduced tax that you would pay to the City. 

I have talked to another investor in this area that had success with selling a similar unit to an investor at a reduced price with a quality tenant which may be another exit strategy.  

I know about the 1031 exchange but id rather not go through the stress of FSBO and trying to buy a house in a shirt period of time. 

Brandon has BP, Ben Leybovich has CFFU, and others just continue doing things within real estate (PM, flipper, broker, realtor, developer, etc..) to reduce the turbulence.The concept of retiring quickly using RE has been published in blog posts and mentioned in several podcasts but it is oversimplified for mass media production.

Remember: you're only living off the interest without reducing the principle to ensure you don't "run out of money".

Seller is asking $74,500 I intend to make $4,500 on the deal, for an all in total of $79k, the owner was willing to reduce his original price of 79k to account for my assignment fee. 4.

You have goals of low/no money down, which can be the stressful part.