I see properties weekly that have issues with large trees, overgrown vegetation or termites that if they would have been addresses a few years before, for pennies on the dollar, then they wouldn't be multi thousand dollar issues in the present.

I personally prefer Multi-fam best as it presents better cash flow I lacked on single family LTR, is passive income (Schedule E on your fed Taxes) and is less management and work.  

The property I am targeting appears to be basically well maintained though it does have some visible deferred maintenance, but nothing out of the range I have dealt with on everything else I have ever bought,   but it is long term ownership and I have good reason to believe (sneaky spying via google street view) the ownership is quite elderly at this point.   

I was presented with an opportunity recently that deviates from my original plan but i still thank may be a good one. 

@Justin Windham @Brian Eastman @Todd Goedeke haven't nearly as present on BP as I'd like to be, recently.

It will either be in a really bad area, or there is some deferred maintenance issue that you'll find during your inspection that will be too expensive to fix. 

I have been presented an opportunity to be a partial investor in a property, where I would be putting up 50% of the cash for down payment, closing, etc.

@Nathan G.This is nothing new but maybe someone will see it who needs to use it: 1031 deferred tax exchange.

Perfect recipe for a value-add investor (pay attention to the deferred maintenance on the building as a whole).

Doctors with hundreds of thousands of dollars in student loans on deferred payments tend to have problems getting mortgages (or at least they think they can't, which amounts to the same thing).