I'm not saying that is your intent.

The most common problem is not the feel good intentions of the owners, it is the lack of knowledge of proper dog training.It is easy to spot a scumbag-gangbanger-a-hole-criminal-felon with an aggressive dog(unfortunately, almost always a pitbull) but, the real problem will be when those good tenants with jobs, good credit and kind hearts, are so puzzled as to why their perfect little 70lbs sweet pitbull baby bit someone.Lastly, a question to the OP. 

I am looking to purchase a first home to live in but am approaching it with the intent of turning the property in to a rental property down the road. 

So much disrespect thrown out towards Chicago and specifically the South Side of the city, I hope the numbers will change a few minds.In the words of a local developer I highly respect Leon Walker "the difference between Gentrification and Venture Development is INTENT” http://www.dl3realty.com/venturedevelopmentIf you are not in the City, you may not know there is a tremendous resurgence happening on the South Side of Chicago.As a native of Brooklyn, if you would have told me my neighborhood as a child in the 80s (Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY) would have turned into Million Dollar homes a on every block I would have laughed at you.

To be clear, I have no intention of them being in charge of finding/screening tenants, managing leases or collecting rent.

Just a contract of intention to buy.

In the first floor unit, it is in the basement (which is very open to the main floor, presumably designed this way intentionally for the heat to rise; in the second floor unit it is in the kitchen.

I do it intentionally to piss them off not because they bother me.

Investment Info:

Small multi-family (2-4 units) buy & hold investment.

Purchase price: $170,000

Sale price: $170,000

Met a flipper and landlord on a plane. Next thing you know I’m buying a duplex...

My intention is to acquire the property and renovate it somehow and sell it.