Fico while they will look these are not credit score driven loans like those buying rental houses or houses to live in...

Perhaps you could also purchase a duplex, for example, and use personal funds for the portion that you can live in and 1031 funds for the investment portion.

That means the government has been borrowing my $600k (instead of $1.2M because I don’t live in California.) interest free for more than 10 years.

(IF you purchased and lived in property asap, then rented it out, then returned to it it sell it years later - better plan.

I remember back when I was ramping up my own rental portfolio in those early-2000s San Diego days, I learned the hard way that ignoring “little” costs..like that termite treatment or the property manager’s onboarding fee..can turn what looked like a sweet deal into something that barely breaks even.Let’s say you pick up a property in one of those under-the-radar neighborhoods in Omaha or maybe on the south side of Chicago..markets I’ve seen a few colleagues dabbling in lately..you’ve got to be ready to get real about the numbers.

Perhaps I have an odd case but I paid $1.35M or $455 / sq ft for a 3,000 sq ft duplex on a 7,000 sq ft lot in Los Feliz.Once I add the ADU complex, which will be around $350K, it will be a quadplex, 4,600 sq ft of living space. 

i think its the easiest asset class to understand that isn't stocks and a lot of peoples livings depend on marketing how perfect it is

Compare other rentals with a similar size, location and bedroom count to get an estimate of what the rent would be while you're living there.

If you live in or around Denver you've probably heard of the Park Hill golf course - if not, here's a quick rundownBackground: 1.

They're investing tons of money into those areas, and attracting a lot of good renters who work in the medical profession and will pay good rents to live close to their jobs.