That being said, we have a prepay of 1% in year 1 and nothing after that.

Market in a MinuteEast Tennessee home sales declined 18.9% from the previous month, and decreased 9% from a year ago.The median sale price was $375,000 — up 7.58% from the previous year.Total housing inventory increased from the previous year – up 41% from a year ago.

From what we are seeing a 60 to 70k 3 bed probably needs work or might be in a less desirable location. 3 to 4  years ago that price point was easy to find but current prices ( after repair) would exceed that amount.

Worst case, I can look up zoning changes and match the address with recent sales, however, if no permits were pulled I do not know if renovations occurred further increasing the value.

I am currently transitioning between tenants where Tenant A (moving out after 2 years with no issues) referred and is the sibling of Tenant B.

Owners mistakenly ASSUME all PMCs offer the exact SAME SERVICES and PERFORM those services EXACTLY THE SAME WAY, so price is the only differentiator – so, they often select the first PMC they call or that calls them back!

We do plan to live on this property after we get out of the military.

(We did not use a professional heir search service).  

Both teams provided outstanding service and played a crucial role in the success of this investment.

My advise is to start with single family or a small multi-family ground up project first but this market environment is truthfully not the time to be completing any ground up projects unless you are self performing the construction which it doesn't appear you are in a position to do.There was a recent Philadelphia  forum chain started by someone else who was contemplating ground up in a similar fashion to what you are proposing and I cautioned they would be better off buying something that was newly built and believe after conducting their own diligence realized it was too cost prohibitive at this time to build with 3rd party GC's in Philadelphia when also accounting for the interest rate environment and cost to build.