Marijuana has not been recreationally legalized in my state yet but if someone wants to smoke it outside I don’t care, or to eat edibles inside, not my worry.

I already paid them for previous documents and I just recreate them if they won't give me an electronic copy.  

The smallest property I manage is a 929 sqft condo, and the largest property is a 4,180 sqft SFR.

It's the 3rd largest city in Michigan, borders Detroit, and has a high tenant population.

It also is the largest expense listed here by a significant margin so make sure you are getting an ROI on it. 

I'm sure that there are a lot of articles about this on Bigger Pockets.But, irrelevant of how much you want to put down you're going to need to see what the cost of the house is, along with closing costs, agent commissions (paid by seller but you're still paying it), taxes, renovations, etc. and then you have to see whether you think that you can sell it for a profit a few years later.But cost is the largest determining factor over whether you're going to achieve positive cash flow or not.Remember one thing.

We have a few dozen universities here, UB being the largest.

My lender for the Bay Area said that when calculating qualification, they would have to assume I would occupy the largest / most expensive unit and that cannot be included in the calculation.

I buy and sell real estate, mainly flips on hunting and recreation land, and have been very successful for several years. 

I'd eventually like to move to several acres or more in the country (possibly with a tillable field that could also be rented to be farmed) and have these rents subsidize the increased cost of the mortgage so that my net mortgage (farm mortgage minus cash flows from these rentals) would be the same (or less) as a fairly standard SFH in the city, for a much larger property that would allow outdoor recreation.