Thinking about what direction to go in with my ~$300k that I am taking when I sell my rental house in a month or two and maybe I want to dip my toe into this market.My day job is in energy efficiency and I have to agree with @David Sisson.

as a car owner who  is all electric.we are a small fraternity.. but change is happening.. and maybe the smart operator now has gas pumps and figure out high energy out put superchargers like we have for our Tesla's  and Porsche is going to have theirs.But i hear ya on the 25 to 50 years back sometimes when I am in the deep south talking to one of the workers or what have you and they tell me they have never been in an airplane and many never left the state LOL.Just so foreign of a concept for many in Upwardly mobile areas

@Sunil Kumar The mini-splits tend to have a much higher SEER rating (more energy efficient) than traditional units so they should be less expensive to operate. 

The key is to have one and to focus significant amounts of your time and energy until you accomplish it.  

That can have a pretty substantial boost to NOI.

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you would have to do a formal assumption.. and if you have to do that why buy something with little to no equity.just becasue you can get motivated seller to sell .. if there is no real equity or apprecition why buy it. big risk and waste of your time and energy.

@Jacob Lee Another option would be to spend more of your time and energy right now networking and connecting with people who do have knowledge of and access to off-market deals.