In typical lawyer fashion, the most accurate answer to your question is "it depends" (sorry lol). 

But a lot of us aren't focusing on acquiring properties in this fashion. 

Deals are hard to come by right this minute, but if I had to guess, there will be some multi-family opportunities starting to surface over the next few years.

We have seen properties that on the surface look good but either the reno costs were too high or the ARV too low to make sense and passed. 

What happens in the future when the term, "Housing Provider", and the other terms that you replace, "Landlord", with become either offensive or out of fashion?

That being said, they are often designed to prevent things from rolling under the bed and with easy to clean surfaces.

But on the surface, it appears that this buyer is new and uneducated on the risks that come with entering a deal like this.Not a good deal for the buyer, and not a good deal for the seller.

It is a large tract that sits in a rectangle fashion on two major cross streets with a tear down house on the corner.

If you look strictly at purchase prices and rent to price ratios on the surface it looks like it's better to buy OOS.

Could I just apply sealer in the other rooms to avoid that the unevenness is coming to the surface?