Pretty crazy game/series, but much respect to Cleveland for doing the impossible.

The other major thing to distinguish various towns' programs is their respective appreciation rules - while Boston's 5% per year is very generous and allows folks to build wealth quickly, other towns favor keeping the costs lower indefinitely, and will dictate a TBD cost of living adjustment when you sell.

If they have so little concern for their own health and life, how much respect will they give my property?

Ideally, you want a B/C property to upgrade in a A/B area respectively.

With all due respect to those with another view, which may serve them well, it's not just about access to the MLS.

For cap ex, you can create a spreadsheet for all the building components, their cost to replace and divide each by their respective lives to estimate monthly/yearly cap ex.  

The ARV  is going to be over $400K and $1.9million respectively.

@Brian Gibbons your advice  above refreshingly sounds like the material I have been learning so far with respect to low equity houses/lease option, I have a friend in mind in that motivated seller kind of situation.  

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Well, let me begin by telling you how little respect I have for most HOAs.