You'll likely also reduce your cost of living by moving to a stabilized apartment.Depending on the cashflow and debt paydown, you can use this strategy until you've built enough equity to reinvest.On the other hand, getting into a multi-family after refinancing will also help you build substantial equity to rinse and repeat in the coming years.

I live in a rural market and this type of issue with technology may not be as big a factor in urban areas.

I know in Philadelphia if I had a 2 BR house it would be viewed favorably by tenants who are seeking 2 BR living situations because most inventory will be apartment style living and for this reason would achieve a rent premium.

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Living in one unit and renting out the others allows you to deduct 75% of expenses like mortgage interest, property taxes, insurance, and shared repairs as rental expenses, while the remaining 25% applies to personal use.

I live right in Glastonbury and I serve the greater Hartford area.

Have enough that after you buy the property you still have 6 months of expenses in reserves that you can use for daily living.

In Florida where I live that amount is the first $50,000 for a married couple are exempt.So to put all that into action, let's say the previous owner paid $100,000 for the property 20 years ago and lived in the property.  

I'm still flipping but I do live ins so only 1 every couple years, mostly San Jose.

Even though we live in earthquake country, this was a new experience for us.