I think it is a great idea to present a couple of different options to sellers, one of which could include offering a few thousand dollars down and pay the remainder of the purchase price over time, with agreed-upon terms like length of loan, interest rate, amortization, balloon payments (if necessary).

It's a large complex so they have a lot of public info on their HOA website.  

Make sure to check out the Bigger Pockets Blog: https://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/It is full of great information

I fill the tank before renting, then they keep it full and return it full before leaving?

Spencer Hsu I offer full real estate services in Indianapolis and believe I can assist you with your first duplex depending what your price point is.

I don't know that he want's me posting it in public.  

The access road is basically an easement thru the front yard of the front 1/2 acre lot (which has State road frontage) as well as a full size ranch house on it.

If you're wondering why I'm going into the aviation field it's because it wasn't until after I signed up for the school I started researching real estate and reading books on it that I knew this is what I want to do full time hopefully before I'm 30.

This specific complex he has owned for more than 10 years because he told me he did a full gut rehab 10 years ago.

Some properties had lower vacancy because they severely cut their screening standards to put heads in beds, but their units were full of concession surfers who would take the one month free deal, never pay, wait to be evicted, then repeat at the next property.