Yet for owners of rental SFRs, duplexes and condos—not to mention retail and restaurants—COVID-19 threatens to reduce landlords’ rental income, perhaps entirely.

My partners and I (3 of us) are based in Miami FL (not the easiest market at the moment) we are all realtors / brokers and investors, each have 20+ years of experience down here, have done multiple ground up single Family and duplex builds and currently have a portfolio of single fam and duplex properties.

A single investor purchased a building in an upscale condo complex and leased all units to Section 8 tenants.

Quote from @Phil Johnson: I currently have a duplex and a single family which are doing well.  

Now that I’m approaching 50 I’ve graduated to house hacking a duplex instead of my primary residence.

I was just looking to see if anyone has done such deals before.further context: its a one-story (4k sqft on 15k sqft lot with permission for duplex).

Quote from @Monica Gonzalez: I'm looking to start with Multi-Family (duplex/triplex).  

and these places are not luxury apartments but more older half of duplexes. 

After buying this house, I partnered with others to invest in a duplex in the Wichita area.At the moment, I’m living in Tennessee, and I’m weighing two options: either selling my house and using the proceeds to buy a duplex in Overland Park or Wichita with my partners, or keeping the house for another 3 years, transferring it to our LLC, and renting out the entire property to maximize its rental potential ( $1400-$1600 ) I currently owe $200k on the property with a 6.5% interest rate, and my monthly payment is between ($1,700-$1800).

Purchase price: $290,000 Sale price: $72,500 Two-story duplex, each unit with 2BR/1BA.