Your common sense is shaded.But get out there, and physically manifest what you are doing on the computer and suddenly you clearly see/feel that this would NEVER work.Now you can combine filters, right?

Where you are going to want to focus your attention is on the leads/skiptracing facets.  1st, unique and proprietary lead sources are hard to come by and expensive. 

Is this a unique tax that's only applicable when using an ira as the down payment?

The situation you describe is not unique to this area.  

It’s been all inclusive for us.So my process is a combination of Quicken and I also use Cozy for rent collection and tracking.

For comparison and reference, in Illinois, homeowners can expect to pay an average of $1,287 in combined taxes for closing on a real estate purchase. 

What are some things to consider that may be unique to buying this type of rental?

Uri Rafaeli, who lost his property and all the equity associated with it, is just one of thousands of people to be victimized by Michigan's uniquely aggressive property tax statute.

I just like mailing to such small, unique, undiscovered sellers that my competition isn't mailing them and as far as they are concerned, I'm the only one sending a "handwritten letter" to them inquiring about buying their house. 

We had a very unique, beautiful space in a small city downtown.