Number of units, location, quality of tenants, condition of mechanicals, financing alternatives, management and maintenance choices, etc. 

Ceramic tile or vinyl are much better choices.

As far as representing myself goes; you must be a lucky guy to have never been dragged into court as he would have a field day with motions and every trick in the book to buy him more time, and ultimately staying in the house longer than he would have to if I had a lawyer.I do have multiple other properties that are cash positive, but with a mortage and expenses at $1,000/month plus legal fees starting at $5,000 (lowest estimate after three lawyers) I don't see that much of a choice. 

Brokers get lot's of crap offers and if the clients have said do not bring me this and this that is the sellers choice.     

The tradeoff is that, HFX aside, appreciation will be less here than in the GTA, Vancouver, or other parts of the country.However, if your choice is Calgary or TO, I would expect Calgary's recent economic slowdown to be creating more opportunity to find homeowners in trouble, but you would need to weigh this against the overbuilt levels of new inventory and the fact the buying population has also declined ...

I'm pretty sure PPR exited the info training space so you're choices are fewer. 

LOL Still a ways away but I love learning as much as possible in between deals to better help me make the right choices.

From your writing, i'm sure you're going to make the right choice.  

Actually the document itself doesn't show up in QuickBooks, however when you need to create a document you are sent to MSW to create one and there you add the fields of  your choice to the document. 

Yes "Tosa" is nice and would defiantly be my first choice as well.