When you hire a buyers agent typically you will technically agree to paying them.

Do plumbers typically do that?

They do both pre-foreclosure sales (typically on the courthouse steps) and bank owned sales (typically online auctions).

In fact, all IRA's are governed by such rules, but when your investments are within the very narrow box offered by a conventional Wall St. brokerage, you typically do not need to know most of the rules that apply once you take more control and invest more broadly.An IRA may be used as a down payment for a house the IRA intends to hold over the long term. 

My girlfriend and I came across a duplex built in 1959 to rent and we were wondering what investors typically set aside for future maintenance and capex on properties that are almost 60 years old.

Your purchase price should maybe be +/- $2000 from the appraisal price, but typically you should pay the appraisal value.Everything should be in-house - rehab work, management, etc - a turnkey company shouldn't be making you sign a contract for a third party management company because then they aren't really accountable to you long-term, the PM is.Beware of scarcity or scare tactics in sales.

That said, there isn't a TON of inventory and most of what is available is typically in the 8-12 unit range in a higher risk area.As for neighborhoods, I'd prefer not to post too much publicly as the area is rather geographically large and it's hard to get to specific.

Typically you’d use private money to buy and rehab this type of property and then refinance with a conventional bank

Active investors will know how to get that info or at least give you typical numbers.

a sage green will typically work with that color of roof, but you need to accent it and more than just the door, shutters and trim.