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But the Big Picture plan for Huntsville's next 50 years is ambitious, future-focused and pretty much guaranteed to boost values, rents, and demand: https://bigpicturehuntsville.com/What's more, Huntsville's internal and external (including, crucially, foreign) business investments are FANTASTIC.

And I notice the first 1-3 months after close is the most crucial on finding and fixing deferred maintenance and broken items.

We once had a tenant demand a new oven when he had accidentally engaged the timed cooking feature and he couldn't understand why the oven was not heating up. 

Only easily found, easily matched, easily replaced baseboards, moldings, and other features that might get damaged.4.

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That would mean something like, if we get 440k for 5 properties, we would pay back 600k over 15 years, at 40k a year (some of the NOI would be held alongside the initial buffer for emergencies until a certain threshold is reached, after which excess of that could be returned toward repayment).While this is an excessively long term investment in terms of real estate not going into a funder's direct portfolio, am I missing something crucial in my calculations or expectations of realized returns that would prevent me from finding someone willing to make this type of deal?

This building was built in 1991, it's two stories and also features window AC units. 

You might consider installing water saving features (replace old toilets, install water saving shower heads, etc.) and actually asking the tenants to please try to conserve water (if you have a good relationship with them).