The best tenants stayed and the undesirable tenants left on their own after becoming aware of our management style. 

I think you need to do some life style planning first.  

I hope that this is not true, but it may be an old fuse box style as well, and if this is the case I will probably ask for seller concessions to make the necessary upgrades and potentially rewire the entire place.

It's a 3 bed 3 bath, row style condo and very comfortable for my wife and I.

Even if your credit is pure poopy, commercial financing of some kind should be available with little to no hassles using 20% ($1m) down provided your LTC does not exceed 85-90% which I'm sure some pre-construction commitments/sales can overcome even if it is.Take your Feasibility Study, Market Analysis, City Approved Plans, Business Plan, Pro-Forma/Projections, Land Use Approval, Environmental Approval, Corp of Engineer Approval (as needed), Soil Sample Reports, Executive Summary, Builder Portfolio and either an Architect Rendering or Scale Model and march on down to the local bank.

Colonial style, nice front porch.

I could get a 1200SF 3/1 ranch-style house on slab b/t $15-20K in a moderate-quality area with strong rents.

I'm having trouble keeping up with the 100-pg "Housing & Environmental Standards" manual and its overactive "enforcement" in my zone!

I really liked her writing style.

To answer your question of me as to marketing - I like the words FREE in my style of marketing.