Fortunately if you do buy this property with this structure already purchased under a 4-unit, they (HUD) won't force you to connect the living structures.

You have the power to find deals, force appreciation, and when disaster strikes (local jobs disappear or the market tanks) there are things YOU can do to keep your units rented and your cash flowing.Condos take out your element of control.

But I prefer to buy and force appreciation through rehab, plus if I run the rehab process I know the property has been completed to my maintenance standards.

You may want to try doing a paragraph break (<p>) and/or a forced line break (<br>).

I always in force the late fee.

I'll probably try to get a rental in the near future (granted the deal is great) and see how it goes for a year then determine if I'm going to go into rentals full force or perhaps focus on rehabs etc.

The other downside to those types of properties is typically the sellers will not hold a second as they are cashing out from forced appreciation and want to put that cash into something else.

The last thing you want as an inexperienced investor is to feel forced to go with a contractor you're not comfortable with.I'm a big advocate of using conventional or FHA owner-occupant loans on the first deal, especially if it is a rental.  

It's usually when either the builder doesn't put rebar in the slab or there's some crazy natural force like a natural spring underneath.

The meticulous and well-done updating that could be found throughout the house made all parties involved feel that the inspection would be the merest formality: keys on Friday and all that.My sense of the owner situation is that he had a complete rewire planned for some years down the road, and is feeling mulish about having his hand forced.