The notary keeps a copy in the closing docs anyway so there’s no avoiding it.  

Every single ticket I've submitted I chose the option to contact me instead of the tentants, but instead they send the tenant a text and an email then close the request because my tenants have no idea how to respond (their emails are super vague and my tenants think they are spam).

A current goal, would look more like “Save x amount for DP and closing costs for first property.”

.), but close enough to the St Aug downtown that ppl can get there easily.  

I recommend looking into areas near economic bases - close to Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Ohio State Campus, New Albany, etc.

I looked at tampa but it's more of a suburban market. miami has over 21 zip codes you can go up to 8 stories in because of the affordable housing issues and it is the only city in Texas and florida in the top 10 most affordable housing needs ranked by city. it's not even close. 

We all want to close that first deal so badly that we will wreck our financials to make it "work."

Now, I did close on that, but if I found an end buyer to do the same deal, it would still be the best option for her and what she wanted. 

House is valued close to 1.5 million. 

I actually had to get enough units where I could offer tenants multiple housing options when I purchased properties rented at way under market rates and then (an embarassing number of times) personally watch tenants that would "suffer" from a rent increase turn down smaller (but nicer places) or  nicer places in a less prestigious zip code (sometimes only minutes away) before I realized that I was hampering my ability to earn a living in order to subsidize the lifestyle choices made by a some random stranger that happened to live in a property I bought.