@Bosko MijatovicIf you get a single family, consider renting it out by the room to the medical students at COMP. renting by the door will increase your cash flow.

Inventories are up (which is a good thing), prices are still increasing at above average rates (6%) but not as fast as the first quarter of 2018 over first quarter 2017 (10%). 

@Joshua D.As a general rule, a valid contract requires something called "consideration."

I'm currently managing a small impact investing fund in Madison, and am looking to increase my involvement in the real estate industry.

The population has declined for years but just last year has increased.

That will increase the profit by quite a bit.In the meantime, now it seems that Amazon's HQ2 will make it's impact in NYC soon, the Appreciation will continue.

This means that you are opening the door to an easy court case whereby ALL of the lease payments are credited towards the purchase.3)  The Option Consideration will not be used as part of the down payment by the bank because the Option Consideration Payment has nothing directly to do with buying the property. 

Even if you roll in the closing cost into the loan, it should only increase monthly by no more that $30.

Your goal is not to avoid raising rents it is the opposite in order to increase income.

@Alison Rauch yes you can pull cash out later assuming value increases.