You’ll need to find a GC on board with the extra paperwork and a seller willing to accept a longer closing time.   

My opinion-- buy in the winter, underwrite with an extra long vacancy, get some seller concessions to defeat the cash flow if it's really that tight.

Quote from @Marc Shin: Should i be providing disposable toothbrushes and extra toothpaste to guests? 

 - a study on rent cost compared to ownership cost shows that virtually every large city market it is initially cheaper to rent than own (I believe is was cheaper to went in 97 of the largest 100 markets)Miami and Florida have extra concerns:- insurance difficulties have resulted in large increase in insurance costs.  

Binghamton is an extra hour you don’t need to drive. 

For some people, taking out a large loan on a property and earning no cash flow for a long time is just not their thing.  

Now your fully renovated home is getting top dollar rents, you could probably refinance too since rates are poised to go lower (lowering your monthly obligation), you could open a HELOC before you move with the extra equity and use that to fund your next deal and now you have 2 homes! 

My PMLs are people with self-directed IRA who are perfectly fine with 5-year term while earning double-digit returns passively tax-free in their SDIRA. 

Maybe to have extra cash for repairs. 

The state’s housing is also ranked as the fourth most affordable in the country.Alabama currently has the second-lowest average property tax rate in the country at 0.4%, which helps investors keep more of the money they earn.