In my office I would say 3 out of about 180 and what I always suspected, I know now for a fact: 10% of the agents do 90% of the buisness.

Only specific assets can be good or bad and even then that qualitative measurement is suspect since what is good for one person is bad for another.

I suspect school ratings somewhat follow affluence.

I recommend you search the forums, I suspect you will find a lot of answers you are looking for. 

As far as cash on hand is concerned, we only have about 25k on hand for a down payment, not including potential money we could take from HELOCs, etc.I suspect the obvious answer is we should be selling one of those rental properties to make this happen, but we're just hoping to get some advice from seasoned real estate investors on whether it's possible to make this happen without doing that.

I suspect the parts tobe relatively inexpensive, and appears easy to replace.

Always use your possible walk away clause if that subject property is more work than you suspected. 

I suspect there are hundreds of thousands of vacant homes in MA built before 1978, assuming everyone is abiding by the laws there.

God knows what she suspects the LL did to the cats.

I'd suspect that the first time the debt service isn't coming like clockwork OR if the bank becomes financially strained, they'll be less lenient on these personal loan --> entity ownership sidesteps than they currently are in the "era of untouchable bull runs".