Your advise of backwards planning or reverse engineering is an excellent approach that becomes even more effective when identifying risks and mitigating those with various controls.

Morning @Ryan Daniel Palmer,Maybe Cash for keys, I'm sure there are tons of posts about it and how to approach the conversation.

With tax season approaching I’m looking for someone who can help with write offs and also future REI in the future.

I believe it is a short-sighted approach because times might change and demand as well as free cash might dry up and then all the long-term investors who understand the benefits of leverage will have moved to those TK providers who understand it systemically.It also begs the question if TK providers really have the best interest of the investor in mind as pushing for cash purchases removes one important accelerator of ROI.

If they will be able to pay market rent, using a step approach to rent increases is fine.

(im talking about the one at a time approach.) 

Wanted to see if anyone had a creative idea on how to approach this deal.

(Again, I am new to this so tell me if there's another way)Then I tried less money down approach for the seller financing.

the income approach is a better, more appropriate method and should be used along with comps if comps are used at all.do you know your projected noi and the prevailing cap rates for the area? 

@Dan Heuschele I like your approach and I find it very inspiring!