Sorry to be a wet blanket, but if there are drug dealers there, it's a good bet that they're gang affiliates.That's a conflict that's most likely not worth having - especially considering the risk to reward ratio.No deal is worth getting killed over.

In the end, I feel safer with my likely tenant pool in this neighborhood than in the neighborhoods I could actually find a 1% deal in. 

Almost any zip has OK parts in it, but unless you are local it's safer to stay out of them. 

If you really believe they will purchase the property.....a long shot at best I'm betting, then have a real estate attorney draw up a lease/purchase agreement stipulating things in writing up front.

The people who buy multis know how to evaluate, negotiate, and put under contract, so you'd have to be very very good to get a deal for them with margin in it for you.... probably not the best thing to bet on without more experience.Oh, and that deal I lost money on?  

I've never been audited, but I'm sure someone on BP has been or a CPA on here has had a client go through it and could say how the IRS handled those situations...I'd rather just play it safer than sorry.

Adwords would be a better bet, since the market identifies themselves by the search intent of the query.

(All bets are off during this supply chain issue and massive inflation situation.).

How is the real estate safer than the stock market?

[ $995 * 12 / 5.059322% = $236k ] I bet when you posted the $995, it actually had some pennies on the end, like $995.13, and the interest rate is a rounder number like 5.06% & not 5.059322...%.Need to see the actual mortgage statement to really do any more number crunching.