In that case I would look for the largest building you could get for around 350k that in good shape and does not have a ton of deferred maintenance.

Not enough margin for vacancies, maintenance, and capital upgrades.The assumable loan would generally considered to be a plus.

Option 4) What if I could rent it out from you, pay minor maintenance, and in 2 years or so pay you appraised price, and also pay the closing costs, AND you could avoid paying the agent's fees, netting you the most amount of money, - is that something we could could talk about, or maybe not?

10% ROI after you pay maintenance and R.E. taxes Is tough.

He is more hands on and does maintenance upkeep, where I focus on lease renewals, handling of rent and tax preparation.

I have some experience now working for her, seeing how tenants can be and the maintenance with rentals, but overall, I think we've been lucky and I haven't had any bad experiences.

The annual filings are in .pdf along with the articles and original filing.There is a phone number, e-mail address, company name, name of a person with address etc.

With section 8 they do annual inspections.

Maybe I increase rents and they move out relatively quick, so in reality it would be like deferred maintenance, or maybe they stay another 5 years and don't complain about the carpet.Thanks.

Because of the current liquidity cost, I have to reduce my trading considerably.In the old days, a statistical arbitrageur can make three digits annual return with very small drawdown, not anymore.