Please give me your thoughts on this deal, getting it structured, what a potential investor would like for a return, if equity in a few of the properties instead of percentage would be more attractive, and anything else you can contribute.

Seems like a very attractive alternative and a fraction of the price.

Here is have a credibility site for my company www.greendothomes.com, a buyer site to attract and market to cash buyers www.greendotbuyer.com, and site for motivated sellers www.cashbuychicago.com.

If 1 bathroom that's not good, you're trying to rent a 3/1 and it should be significantly discounted as anyone with three people will expect 1 bathrooms.If 3/2 good, but rooms need to be at least normal size, not unusually small and layout needs to be decent (not weird).If 1 bathroom or unusually small rooms, you should significantly discount your rate to attract decent prospects. 

If it's close to attractions, shopping, bars, casinos, lakes or anywhere people might want to spend the night then furnished is the only way to go.

Thanks- we have used the Kilz before with good results, just wanted to get other ideas first as I have been warned that this was extreme (ie-hard to breathe).

They tend to be unusually demanding, and just like the example of basement apartments attracting a strange type, this type of payment seems to indicate the same thing.  

It still cash flows and a sale in the 3-4 year window allows a quality duplex that should bring 85-95k sale price without any immediately foreseeable CapEx which makes it more attractive for a buyer. 

I think it more or so has to do with you and the environment in the brokerage you join. smaller firms generally attract more tenured agents that go there to not spend time training newbies.

Hello,Is it just me or does depreciation recapture and capital gains make real estate seem less lucrative or attractive than it used to?