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

My name is Montse, I’m originally from Spain, and I currently live in the Netherlands.

You have multiple people living in each others spaces.

(or if they're primary buyers, they don't care about yield, since they're going to live there.)i just went to visit two very distressed properties yesterday that i would buy.... if they were priced 50% lower.  

We live, office, and Property Manage in Queen Creek and love it!

The wear/tear is much less for STR because the guests do not live their full-time.   

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.  

It depends how long you plan on living.

The program was created to give low-income tenants an alternative to living in federal project housing.S8 sets their rental rates to the LOW-END of market averages, if not slightly below.

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.