Advertise on the property.In How to win friends and Influence Others he talked about McDonald's not being in the burger business but being in the Real Estate (namely land) business.

Compliance influences both the vulnerability to flood damage and the cost of NFIP flood insurance.

They have great influence on the results of your endeavors.

Come to find out the abuser was under the influence and was arrested.

Get 4 three ring binders (Planning for Sellers, Planning for Buyers, Planning for Private Lenders & JV Partners, Planning for COIs (Centers of Influence, meaning who can refer you business, think giving PR speeches to Influential People, like Rotary, Chamber, etc)3.

You might check with the city planning department & see if there's any long-term strategy for the area that might influence your decision.

I think just lowering the water bill and increasing rents on small units should boost monthly cash flow to about $300/month.

So you'll have some boost to your buying power due to that, hopefully.  

Currently, I'm wanting to get my first multi family but Ive decided to pay down debt, boost credit score and save more.

HUD's been out of the business of funding landlords with money for decades. that's one of the areas where the training comes in: influencing landlords and aspiring 'vendors' to learn how to form the state, county, city, community, private & corporate/institutional partnerships that lead to a HUD Sec. 8 grant award becoming available as a "program". if you for instance want to charge elderly tenants $ 2,400 a month for a two bedroom dwelling you can propose that criteria within your Sec. 8 grant proposal as a 'program' vendor. a lot of military veterans that are mildly disabled have allowances for that target range of rent with a live-in home care attendant, or home health aid assistant. most well known regional markets have 5+ year Sec. 8 waiting lists of very desirable tenants that you can cherry pick to your heart's content, featuring all manor of financial circumstance. they range from homeless to affluent with interim insolvency due to quite practical reasons. divorce is a very prominent scenario. a growing wave of real estate heirs are among those Sec. 8 waiting lists in more and more strategic regions. you may find that interacting with more recently credentialed occupancy certification specialists can better acquaint you with the actual yield(s) that would be available from the wide unrelated contributors to a potential Sec. 8, or locally subsidized program military bases also circulate routine information on what certain types of housing is worth to their ongoing efforts for key time intervals. their veteran G.