I could easily live in a 1/1 or studio if it will make me more wealthy. 

You can easily beat 5.9% in the stock market.

This will help ensure the snow will not build up on the roof, as the snow will easily slide off the metal roof.Also I would say the metal is not always going to outlast the comp roof.

But those expenses can be recovered very easily with referral commissions where you can make $500/hour and up.  

If it has some normal damage ( nail or screw holes from hanging pictures) it can easily be repaired.

With that said, you can buy below market value pretty easily, so appreciation is not as big of deal.

I KNEW that property was worth in its current condition 100K EASILY but I told him I would have to pass and only ended up buying the other house in the not as great area because I was scared about the overall condition of the first house and I didn't know what other huge problems might have been lurking that I wouldn't have been financially prepared to tackle during the renovation.

You can easily install a header across.

People can easily break bulbs when they carry stuff; code officials in one town where I iwn rentals won't pass an inspection with those old fixtures.

If it isn’t your house you can lower your monthly expenses easily a few hundred bucks a month, and since it isn’t your house you can be flexible to move into your deal as you find it.