Good luck.When you eventually become a landlord, look for our FB group Philadelphia Landlords Connect :-)

Painting with Kiltz or Zinsser BIN will seal the smell, stain and chemicals for a while, but they may eventually come back.  

Eventually, we got all rents to be the same, but didn’t push the deposit issue.

Eventually, you will work your way up to non-recourse loans. 

They listing had a failed pending sale and eventually my brother talked them down to $400k sales price planning to buy it on his own.

Buying an older duplex/triplex and renting it out for the time being will eventually be sold as a teardown in the coming years. 

Rehabbing units, new porches with a grant program in the works and eventually updating siding as well What was the outcome?

Goal is to eventually quit my day job (land surveyor, mostly for construction).

This would also allow you to move out eventually and keep the favorable loan terms then keep the property as a passive income asset.If you could find a value- add situation and are comfortable with renovations then you could also increase rents and equity simultaneously.

But if you want to go faster, there are two things that will help by getting your foot in the door with house hacking.First, is over time you'll build equity and can eventually refinance and take that cash to use as down payments.Second, if you want to use private lenders, virtually all of them other than family and close friends will want to see a track record.