You're feeding 2 dogs with one biscuit by taking care of your living expenses and generating rental income at the same time, and by living in the house and keeping it to 4, you generally get exemptions on things that might bother you to live with (IE you can choose whomever you want as your tenants without running afoul of fair housing laws).

I did find this deal driving driving for dollars, the realtor of the property was adding his sign in the front yard, I approached to make and offer. we close in 3 weeks.

One thing I suggest doing as you do your research as well is to find a property on AirBnB that you like. 

Higher-quality areas attract tenants who are more reliable and tend to take better care of the property.

Maybe start with adding 1 more property instead of 3.

Quote from @Lisa Albright: Hi All,Newbie here, just a quick question we are building an addition on our second home, we have a primary residence, and two rental properties.

If you don't care about income and are more of a capital gain kind of guy, prices are already high (as you noticed) and there's plenty of land available to buy so I'm not sure how much is left in the tank.

We worked with a lawyer over there who is a US ex-pat who created and registered a local LLC for us, which owns our properties.

A couple of months ago, I purchased a property using a hard money loan for $115,000.

Quote from @Brendan Doherty': I’ve read in books of people getting past having to live in the property they own so they can rent all units year one of ownership(living on the property with an rv).