Where you live in relation to the investment property shouldn't matter.

The company I currently use for my other investment homes said they don't offer management for any co living... unless everyone in the home is on one lease.

I am looked at by the loan officer as living in a situation rent free. 3.

When you live in that duplex for 2 years and then sell you'll be able to take 50% of the profit tax free (the allocation for the side you lived in). 

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A good way into it may be doing a house hack or live and flip then pulling the equity out in a refinance.Tons of ways to make money in this game!

Hey DenisI have commented a lot about arbitrage in a general sense here, however I believe I am uniquely qualified to answer here as I live and operate about 65 units in this specific market.In 2016 I got my STR start arbitraging a Gulf Front mansion that was in foreclosure and I got a great deal on. 

I never actually went live on the site because of the 15% fee they wanted.

@Hudson Filippi What part of Northern MN do you live in now?

You do not have to live in the home in order to do that!