I would lose the awnings; those metal awnings always look incredibly dated, and unless you are in the south where there's fierce sun, they make it dark inside.

You also have a salary that you can use to build yourself a really good credit report.Wealthloop, Trump may not install toilets, but you'd better believe he knows to the penny how much he should be paying to have 2500 toilets installed.

All metal seems to be affected.

In order to fund the down payment, I would have to sell some stocks and/or hard metals.

These too can fall under the new financing regulations selling to owner occupants, the target of the new regulations.The last two may be used in a commercial lending situation, between investors, but any installment deal also has issues with respect to the "due-on-sale" clause in mortgages, the lender may call their mortgage due in full if a sale has occurred.I'll stop here, read, learn the basics, learn conventional financing requirements as those will be the target to accomplish any creative transaction.

We've done a fairly thorough pre-inspection and have taken some detailed notes (btw this house had a new roof and siding installed in 2011).

Brian, IMO, there is no bullet proof system or agreement that facilitates some type of installment purcahse because each deal is different.

We installed huge sprinklers to keep down the dust.

So, are we, the landlords, supposed to install washer and dryer or would the tenants usually bring those with them?

All it takes is a thief posing as a tenant to see the house is vacant and where the pipes are.After the first, and hopefully last time that happened, we installed an alarm system and if either of them are vacant again, we'll board up most windows and the back door and install an alarm.