One major benefit from that will also be the ability to utilize one management company and if you ever do visit the properties it is an easier process.

However, for what ever reason, the lower tenant (according to the upper tenant) has been mean, rude, saying things like the backyard is only for the lower unit, they had a door decorating "competition" for Halloween which turned into the lower tenant yelling at the upper tenant.  

So if you ever buy a home and the appraised value comes back in very low ( make sure to verify with other legit comps that the home is worth what you are contracted to buy it for ) you could file a BBB complaint and possibly get the value corrected. 

And I don't see any reason why you would ever want to close them yourself.Your credit score would not be negatively affected by having an open credit card with a zero or low balance.

The property was hoarder house; definitely the worst we had ever seen. 

Get a few properties under you belt, cash flowing and then you can move where ever you want to settle down.Your scenarios would get you at least 4 houses maybe 6 if you play it right in places like Indiana, Ohio, and so on.

Has anyone ever used Consulting & Beyond for financing?

Did you ever move forward with PFG, if so what do you think about the company, would you recommend them?

Who has ever raised more seed capital than they needed? 

After hours (HOURS) on the phone with the IRS, we discovered our accountant, who we fired months ago, neglected to ever actually file them.