@Bruce Ellerd - Why not rent out the house in a traditional manner? 

and stay motivated, mind set is everything, its not easy to start out but once it does it will be a snow ball effect! 

Hi @Josh CaldwellI canvas financial plannersI ask them if their clients would like to sell their low equity homes on lease purchase instead of paying the traditional sales costs of selling with an agent, which saves their client sometimes as much as 9 to 12 per cent.If the sellers have no equity, they do not need to break savings plans like IRAs to use to pay the costs to sell.  

Initial cash flow can be thin but you will find lots of the traditional Boston "Triple Deckers" to consider.  

You can get financing fro banks and traditional lenders, Hard money lenders (high % rate loan based on the asset more than your credit), private lenders (friends family or associates), or owner financing (simply pay the owner over time).Generally you are going to need at least some cash if you use financing.

Nine feet of snow in New England. 

I using traditional FHA.

At that property there isn't a shared driveway so the tenant with the driveway has snow removal responsibility.At other duplexes I handle both the lawn and snow removal.  

I think it still snows there. 

Traditionally in Chicago apt the living is in front and bedroom in rear.