They come to 3k/mo with almost 1k that could, in an emergency, be cut.

For repairs, I'm guessing it would be straight forward (fingers crossed). 

In my opinion, even though the sellers were saving money, they weren’t being given the service and representation that I think provided the level of agency that honors the duties required by a brokerage- basically, cut rate, or not, they weren’t being represented well.

Might as well cut it loose and get a better cash flowing rental.

Just so I have this straight -  since we are able to split rental and personal we do not have to adjust the deducted mortgage interest even though the mortgage is over $750k?

In the other two instances, the city had put pumps that led from the creeks straight into the storm drains and that took care of it very well.

He cut down a tree but did not properly dispose of the trigs (the wood was stacked but the trigs was in a pile). 

Say you have the units all rented out and are getting $3,900*12= $46,800/$280,000 = Gross Cap 16.7% cut it in half with 50% rule (includes vacany, capex (repairs), insurance, property tax, etc. etc.) makes your net return 8.35% based on simple 50% rule.

And getting started in real estate investing or anything worthwhile for that matter is never going to be a straight path. 

Things like dormers and cut up areas really add a lot of time, while big wide open roof areas can go pretty fast with metal.