Or am I way off base here and trying to bite off more than I chew?

If it is constantly more than you are wanting to chew on then now you are just that much better at knowing what a house that needs too much work for your margins looks like. 

I would definitely avoid large dogs that dig up yard, chew up trim, dig up carpet, scratch doors, and can be heard barking from five houses away.

I wouldn't recommend downloading and using a form from the internet because any local lawyer will end up chewing that up the first time something goes wrong.Good Luck!

We have funds to rehab, but don’t want to bite off more than we can chew with deep rooted issues.Specifically been eyeing Chelsea, Quincy, areas of Dorchester, south Boston, and possibly Salem.To make the numbers work, it seems as though duplex is out of the question in the area while turning a live-in profit? 

This is the point where @Paul Sandhu steps in and says, "I give my renters two rolls of Bounty paper towels, a pouch of Levi Garrett Loose Leaf Chewing Tobacco, a bucket of Colonel Sanders finest, and the address to the local strip joint.

Big burly guys that drive jacked up 4x4s, smell like diesel, chew tobacco in their sleep, and have a scorpion tat on their neck. 

The back porch is built on a slab -- unless Superrat can dig under a footed concrete slab and tunnel about 8 feet, and then chew through the cinderblock foundation wall to get into the basement proper, there's no way it can get into the house through the hole she found.

@Kaitlyn Bjerk I think you might be biting off more than you can chew with a full gut job as a new investor, This can be pretty risky and it's quite easy to underestimate your rehab costs.

I feel that if i do this on my own now it may be more than i can chew.