Lower money down to purchase, throw some money into it to make it look nice, and then place renters in there after a year? 

If I rent it makes me not responsible for anything thats happens with the house/apartment, but I would be throwing away money.I would love to buy a house, I love projects and home ownership is something I've always wanted to achieve. 

I would wonder if insurance might be substantially higher than normal landlord insurance (thinking about the tenants who throw big parties and destroy your property).

How will you keep them engaged for the next 6 months without throwing them any business?

The agent is throwing is under the bus and asking why we just can't go in and physically throw the squatter out.

Throw in the public REITs, and you have an incredibly competitive environment in the primary, secondary and now even tertiary markets in terms of how much raw capital is out there chasing deals. 

It seems you think the advice is correct or at least on the right bath, have him throw a few deals your way he says will be good, run the numbers and see if you agree. 

Throwing a win win situation to the table, what if we meet for a beer I share all I have learned and you tell me the secret spots to visit in the island?

I'm obviously not going to pull the trigger and throw away tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars on something I am not confident in. 

Brought in a boiler service company, they spent 2 days troubleshooting the system and were able to get all but 2 to work, so now 16 out of 18.They have been doing this for 25 years and have no idea what is wrong with the remaining two, and I am considering replacing them with electric baseboard instead of continuing to throw money at this.My bill so far is $2800, and by the time it is all said and done I imagine it will be almost $4000.Do I have any remediation possible?