A 60-year-old woman with great credit, rental history, and 20 years at the same job?

Also make sure you have good documentation of your payment history. 

If you didn't, seems like a bad / inexperienced accountant to suggest such a thing.In my opinion, its the same as telling someone to go to a trade school and get a new career.A STR can help you lower your taxes but I would only do it if you were planning to purchase a STR.A STR is a business, you are responsible for furnishing the house, responding to guests, providing a great stay and experience, etc

I went to school to be an engineer because I thought this was the way over real estate.

You can access detailed property information like ownership history and contact details, which can help you create a targeted mailing list.- ProspectNow: Similar to Reonomy, ProspectNow provides a database of multifamily property owners along with their contact information.

Running background checks on tenants, criminal, eviction, employment history are some way to determine if this is the right tenant for you. 

Here there is a 25 GPG hardness and .2-.8PPM (not sure specifically what my rental has), which leads to buildup and rust, in addition, there has been a history of too high magnesium which caused an advisory from the city itself about potentially unsafe levels of magnesium. 

If you're going to a bank, you'll want to look for a smaller, community bank that has a history of lending on retail centers and multi-family...what they call "CRE" lending vs the owner-occupied "C&I" lending.

Hello,A job relocation to San Francisco CA early this year is making me ponder if I should be selling my owner occupied duplex in Jersey City and buy something in Berkeley CA due to its proximity to San Francisco and has some fairly decent schools  for my kids and also UC Berkeley .The low  2.5% interest rate on the Jersey City property turned into a golden chain but I think I am done with managing tenants and property and would like to get more into an Equity play.

Growing up, my mother and I were renters, and I vividly recall the gratitude we felt when a landlord took a chance on us, despite my mother's imperfect credit history.