Good luck "By the way I believe you can succeed in both markets (high cash flow/low appreciation & low cash flow/high appreciation) but best odds are if you are intimate with the market."100% agreed and there are many ways to skin a cat (Sorry to the animal activists) hahaHaving the intimate market knowledge as you mention and an end goal will keep an investor on the path forward.Time is a beautiful teacher and will eventually reveal what strategy was best.Much success

I took over a small home with a previous owner animal that peed everywhere and it seeped into the sub concrete.

Fraudulent service animal claims can be fined.

An out of control litigious society, and the things that really eat up modern family wealth have nothing to do with what consumers would expect.

Now, I could get a 0% loan through the mass save program for 50k of that over 7 years and come up with the rest out of pocket, but that would eat into a good chunk of my cashflow. my thought is that its not worth it to put the 70-85k into the property and might be better to sell it since I could probably sell it now for about 100k more than i paid for it.

My goal is accumulate properties while I’m still living at home, to eventually be able to fund building my own house with the cash flow from the properties.You are going to need 20-30 percent down then which will eat your savings.

In the end part of the hostile dispute to get money from me she claimed I should not have chanrged since hers is a service animal.

If my cash flow was not strong enough to weather them moving, I'd eat the tax increase while considering a 1031 or an outright taxable sale, both of which I've done. 

@Kaycie GunnIf you want debt financing hard money or private money lenders will fund with typically 25% down paymentIf you are looking to syndicate and raise money from investors then that is a different animal and you will need to file an sec exemption to raise money and depending on your experience it could be moderately challenging to near impossible.

People need to eat and pay rent.