@Mitchell Litam If I had a dollar every time I have seen a ceiling like that in a rent house I could by a duplex free and clear. 

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Home-Decorators-Collection-Stony-Oak-Grey-6-in-x-36-in-Luxury-Vinyl-Plank-20-34-sq-ft-case-60198/207047495It looks really great with repose gray walls and bright white trim.  

My offer was accepted on a duplex and I recently asked for the current rental agreement for the current tenants.

However, the house is a former duplex that has separate utilities, egresses, etc.On top of that I found out that the smaller frontage of the lot means that the municipality in which it's located probably is not amenable to allowing the lot to be split. 

I ended up buying through a high quality TK provider last Aug and have had almost no maintenance and one side of the duplex is a 2 yr lease.

@Ryan York I purchased a half duplex in 2016 in key colony.

@Jenny Wall Congrats on a potentially good deal -   first repairs are NOT the tenants responsibility in ANY rental - however....there are ways to add more of it to them in a lease option - in the lease portion you can usually ask they pay anything up to $x  .... usually this is fairly small like $75-100 - however it will depend on your local judges and how they feel about this. 

We planned to put about 30-40k into it to open up walls, remodel the kitchen and bathroom and possibly even add a bath.

We planned to put about 30-40k into it to open up walls, remodel the kitchen and bathroom and possibly even add a bath.

I'm still a newbie with only my house hack/duplex going so far but we're not going to die from paralysis of  analysis so I'm still trying to figure out a few of the data points for the calculators.