Taxes were around 3600.Apt 1 is 1600 sq feet 2 bed 1.5 bath that rents for $2250.Apt 2 is 740 sq feet 2 bed 1 bath that rents for $1500.Both units have their own laundry rooms and separate driveways, feel more like your own house than a traditional walk up apartment.Vacancy rate is historically low, average renter stays for 5-6 years.

Your original question has already been thoroughly answered, but to sum up: You can definitely scoop up a house hack duplex with traditional financing in the Greater ATL metro.

Traditionally those early repairs would be added to the cost basis and depreciated with the rest of the home. but if the repairs were relatively inexpensive and tended towards cosmetic, you're probably a safe bet to go ahead and deduct it.

Between maintenance and energy costs, was it more or less expensive than a traditional boiler?

Go to a traditional mortgage company and get a 30 year mortgage.

Therefore if it doesn't work out in a traditional way, that's a risk. 

With these agreements, purchasers with lower credit scores or incomes may be able to obtain loans that they could not have been approved for otherwise.At the same time, the interest rate that a seller may charge can often exceed that charged by a traditional mortgage lender.

The United States has, traditionally, had lower cost housing than pretty much anywhere else in the world.

In addition to other non-traditional, and traditional, real estate investing.  

Once the money is in your Self Directed IRA, it can purchase real estate and other non traditional investments.