The front entry is through 2 locked doors, first door is a buzz/key entry and the second door leading to the upper units is a buzz/key entry as well.Can someone recommend a sturdier product while maintaining the same locked/buzz in secure entry?

OrSecond: buy a single-family fixer upper (400-500k) home, live in it for 2 years and either sell it to avoid capital gains tax or rent it out. 

It would make sense while you are doing all of this work to also maybe look at installing an individual heat source for the upper unit giving them control over their own unit temperature. 

Myrtle Beach is a great area.You will need to be several blocks, or more, from the beach at that price point.A  fixer upper would get the price down some.

Sell current home and buy fixer upper for cheap then do rehab.

People on here are overreacting to this issue, with over 2 million rental homes in California I'm going to go out on a limb and say the ones that have issues with tenants, generally, are the poorer managed ones. 

This, combined with the necessity to have a sizable amount of cash, has priced many would-be buyers out of the market.Here, the solution is for the developer to sell properties that are qualitatively as good below market and make up for the lower profit margin by selling quicker and more and having happier clients.Some of you have asked for my opinion on 2-bedroom condos in Tulum in the upper $300k - $400k range.

Used remodeled versions in parks go for $70-80k. you can buy a fixer upper one in a park for $30-40k.

Thousands of opinions are viewed by review appraisers and others who can put a bad appraiser out of business and if their opinions are not statistaclly valid or in line with similar assumptions in the market an in line with other appraisers, they get slapped.The art is making the most correct adjustment, the most justifiable opion, not one that is at an upper or lower range.

Also electric updating, at least in the upper Midwest, will eat up quite a bit of money if they end up having to rerun everything.