By renting out a duplex unit, you can cover a portion of your mortgage and free up cash for other investments.

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For your property to perform well, I would want it to rent for around $1800 a month to cover expenses and provide some cash flow.

If it's mostly fully occupied you can get a full-doc commercial loan as long as it debt covers.

Otherwise, you won't have the extra funds necessary to cover the rising costs of goods and services in the future.What causes rents (and prices) to increase?

I’d have a better picture by sitting down with someone at a bank, but I did a calculation online and the new loan on cashing out $130k would still be covered by the current rental payment.

Build an emergency fund to cover unexpected costs, and ensure you can manage the mortgage without STR income if needed.

We recommend you get management contracts from several PMCs and compare the services they cover and, more importantly, what they each DO NOT cover.

There are definitely some pockets of fairly priced duplexes to at least cover some of the mortgage, but tough to actually come out in the green monthly if you’re living in the other unit.

One is a DSCR loan that covers 5 properties (also a 30-year fixed...at 3.75%!).