Michigan grower here lets do the math ,
-Rent a house
-1,000$ a month
-Make sure the owner is down with you growing
-With that many lights / other electrical equipment associated with growing expect 1000$ or so a month for electricity
-24 lights x 400$ a pop ( that's a generous amount because you can get bulk deals ) 9600$ (one time fee) worst case scenario unless you go all high end LED
-Your card + 5 patients and if you can swing it have your wife / girlfriend / significant other get there card with 5 patients ( maybe a 1000$ if you pay for everything out of pocket )
So at the end of 12 months
-That method 120,000$ lost to rent / electricity + nutes and you don't own the equipment
-This method 25,000$ lost to rent / electricity + 10,000$ in lights that you own /can resell or move to a different property when you're done.
-Also for 120,000$ you could buy fixer upper home and get all set up for growing if you have the legit job to back up the initial mortgage.
-Then use the cash to fix it up, flip it, rinse and repeat.
-These are just a few ideas I would look into / I would prefer to do over tossing 10,000$ a month away in rent into someone else's pocket.
-You also get to live at the house too, so no extra money spent on rent and complete / total access to your garden as well which is preferred
-Honestly though unless you are well prepared to move large quantities through legal grey area i would say stick to smaller more personal grows but that's just me
-However if they lowered rent to 2,000$-4,000$ + nutes / electricity a month with lights included i would say that is more reasonable
DOWN SIDES
-Chances are no landlord will let this happen because it opens them up to major liability
-I have never heard of "city" approval for growing ganja so that sounds like smoke being blown up an ass
-No home insurance company in there right mind is going to want to insure a home with that activity going on, so getting a mortgage is off the table.
-So unless you got taxed legal cash to buy the house you might be SOL
-I still wouldn't pay 10,000$ a month in rent though unless Michigan seriously relaxes the laws on my ability to posses larger quantities of final product weight so i could make up for the large expenditure.