There is so much information here, it's going to take me a year to read it all and the quality of people, experts, and advice is by far the best I have found.

It comes down to what you believe will give you the best quality of life.To balance out the emotional component if the decision, you may want to have a well thought out plan of what to do with the money so that it doesn't evaporate.

I dont know, Im running my business as usual and someone wants to send me quality leads to close?

Dallas and Houston are amazing for SFRs because they are bigger, nicer, higher quality, nicer neighborhoods, etc.

Yes, all the time and the reasons for it vary as much as the quality of tenants that you will be inheriting, which by the way, from my experience is directly proportional to how good/bad the previous owners accounting was.

My source who is friends with the owners brother says that several of them haven't paid rent in months.The neighborhood isn't bad, just seems as though it has landlords who dont value the quality of their property, never did improvements or kept it up, so it can be potentially a good buildingAfter doing some due diligence, It doesn't even have a building value under the property appraisal site.Im surely going to have to get a lawyer involved to make sure everything checks out and of course the title company to see about any liens.Im wondering how would you guys go about acquiring this property.

It is trickier than Boston in that the neighborhood quality changes very fast, especially for areas bordering North Philly.

That way, you can structure the best deal AND get the type of house you want.Depending on which side of the equation you are on, the biggest issue with Rent to Owns is the lack of quality properties offered on this arrangement.

Be sure to thank joe above for his excellent post, he has thousands of the same quality. 

Pricing it competitively or doing something to make it stand out from the competition will keep it rented to quality tenants.