The specialist I recommend you have is an attorney to properly draft the documents and a title company to facilitate the deal.

So many questions and things to consider.

Hadn't heard Azibo mentioned before so I'll look into that.I'm purchasing with a bit of equity to start, plus I'll have put 25% down on purchase and am making a few upgrades.

If the property was in really rough shape when you handed it to them, I could see why they might want to have some income to manage all that work. 

1) Research Zoning of similar property2) Do search with same zoning criteria with propertyradar or have title company give you a list.3) Possibly filter by satellite photos to eliminate undesirable topography.

“If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.”- Former IBM CEO Thomas Watson

I would ask the installer to come back and fix it.

Purchase price: $28,000 Cash invested: $28,000 Raw land, and 2 adjacent lots to be developed into duplex rental What made you interested in investing in this type of deal?

It came out to $823 in expenses and in the area Section 8 is paying $11400 to $1600 a unit.

I’d love to keep house hacking but I think this next one has to be the last one to keep the miss’ happy.