The bad news is that it still has one of those old fuse breaker boxes and I suspect that much of the wiring and plumbing has never been updated.

Otherwise, unless purchased in an area with lots of new development, it'll be a bad investment.

Yeah not too bad.

But, if you have a bad tenant, you can go through the 14 day notice, wait out the 3-4 weeks court day and the day before you go to court, they can deposit some cash in the account, then show up at the hearing and say they made a payment and you accepted so therefore the 14 day and court hearing is  essential void. 

Soul proprietorship sounds like a bad idea unless I only help out with the rentals occasionally, but neither of us plan to take a salary as my w2 job will support us on its own.Based on the facts provided, are there suggestions for how to structure the rental business and what type of entity if any to use?

still not quite safe but used to be really bad. 

Just because I am not an accountant does not mean I am providing bad advice in fact my comment correllated with a few things you mentioned as well.

As far as Cleveland goes, you really have to know the specific areas that are good and bad.

Like in any business, there are good turn key companies and there are bad ones as shown right here on this forum.

The BP app seems really bad..too many things to go into detail.....I avoid it and have to log in each time with chrome...I have better experience  from.laptop than phone..Is it on my end?