I see a lot of potential deals, but I don’t want to get them under contract if I can’t perform and find a buyer.

It's not guaranteed they will always have what you are looking for but once they come across something, particularly off market, you can make it where you are the first one they will call especially if you show them you can perform on the close.When I first got started in brokerage, I found out which investors were the serious buyers quickly after sending great deals and they would snatch it up right away.

If you have just one or two properties and something goes wrong ie. vacancy, HVAC replacement etc, you'll feel the pinch a lot more than you would if you have other properties in your portfolio offsetting an under performing one.

The amenities may be basic but the service should be class-A.have a worldview that is empathetic to poor people- ie they don't believe that poor people are poor because they make bad life choices; actually RESPECT THEIR (D-neighborhood) TENANTSdoesn't have the unrealistic expectation that low credit score tenants will respond to incentives designed for tenants with a credit score to protect and sets payment policies to promote desired tenant payment behaviors for low credit score tenantsprefers to achieve goals by eliciting cooperation instead of the exercise of power;communicates clearly and directly (even on 'awkward' topics like money and complaints about 'peculiarities')likes to solve problemsHaving said all that, I would still recommend B neighborhoods if you can afford it because of appreciation (and as @Erik Whiting said, exit strategy) .

I perform this analysis for my clients all the time.From a high level, the yield maintenance calculation is ((Present Value of Remaining Payments + Present Value of Balloon Payment) - Principal Payoff Balance).

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That means they loan to your company (you both would need to qualify as personal guarantees, but the loan would be based on the value/cashflow/performance of the property). 

If you don't have profit, depreciating assets is just a math exercise with no tangible benefit.It is worth pointing out that the very best depreciable asset is real estate itself.