Two huge pieces of land and a very large house (All in southamerica).

Sorry, misread the tax abatement piece!

If you drive a piece of crap the prospective client might think you can't afford to maintain the property.

The fallback would be to hire a commercial re broker, but they will take a piece of the total lease value.

Here is a pictorial news piece on what is facing Detroit.

They used pre-painted navy blue HardiePlank on the exterior and the professional contractors hanging it had typical size gaps where the siding pieces meet eachother } So when it was all said and done, they had to caulk the cracks with the Hardie colored caulking, which in turn left this very glossy shine outlining every crack on the house.

I must be focusing on the tree instead of the woods.I do agree with your example (about putting 50% down) that I should try to maximize leverage in the event another piece of property comes into sight that I'm interested in purchasing.

Essentially the piece of the company referred to on the BP is their company that has invested billions of dollars in very recent time to buy thousands of houses in select markets around the country.

That being said my vote would be option B, if you can pull off the financing piece, and if the condo has positive cash flow.

I did an early, short, big picture Seeking Alpha piece (Private Equity Binge and Purge or something or other )on this topic, arguing it may be hard to use single family at scale for  many reasons (like, they are all spread out and not uniform, etc)...