But hey, no risk no reward right?

But with that, you are looking at a long term (probably) reward.

@Jamie Garcia yes there are always numerous purchases that are happening here in the Los Angeles area for multi unit 2-4.  

If they need immediate cash, there are numerous note investors who will buy “partials”, i.e. they will buy say the first 2 years payments with the seller keeping the large majority of principal balance.

I’ve had one offer fall thru and numerous requests to rent to own.

This would be a bit challenging due to having pets and not being able to work down there (which, while financially not rewarding would be a great step for my career in language teaching).

This is in my opinion the most risk and possible the highest reward. 

So here are my questions and to simply please answer the questions numerically.

@Dennis M.Real world real estate experience coming to the fore...there's a quality customer rewards program!

I have numerous stoves 20+ years old that work fine.