Is the Only Way to Negotiate a Lower Price with Builders is to have a pain in the butt inspector find a laundry list of problems and meaningless in the grand scheme defects to compel them to cut their numbers to move to acceptance and closing?

If you find a good prospect and you want to place them, I would even recommend 1st month free if they sign a lease today.

Purchase price: $1,450,000 Cash invested: $2,000,000 Sale price: $2,300,000 300+ lot RV park that is located outside of the city limits of Addis at the intersection of Hwy.1148 and Charles Ory Road (about two miles from Dow Chemical on the West Baton Rouge side of the West Baton Rouge/Iberville Parish line).

So you could purchase one property for all cash or a larger down payment. 

I'm wondering if I just move on from my PM and find someone who's willing to take on a bit of a fixer upper, or keep the current PM for now, hire out someone myself to do all the work needed, then find a new PM.

It is very difficult to find a reliable manager for renting by the room here.

Toby Mathis has many videos on YouTube with great info, so you may be able to find some information on there.

Is it common to use a buyer broker/agent when purchasing apartment buildings?

I will have about 15k-20k in liquid Cash when I turn 18. 

i was exploring and saw some of the neighborhoods in kyle, Tx has school ratings like 8 and brand new houses in the range of 300K with potential rents at $2200 per month so overall making them cash flow positive. however, i am not sure why Kyle is a popular place. it is mid way between austin and san antonio but that does not seem to be a strong enough reason.