Tax Savings:While it’s true that the stock market has been strong, real estate offers unique tax advantages that aren’t available with other asset classes.

What are your best tips for screening tenants, especially for student renters?

A rent payment isn't enough to cover the DSCR payment, HELOC payment, tax, insurance, and maintenance.

So, in your considerations, I would park right there for a bit and determine how this would look for you.Since you have about 2.5 years to think about it before you would need to spring into action to take advantage of the rollover for tax advantages, maybe you try on a rental and see how it fits. 

Taxes are the $100, so about $290 a month expenses. $110 a month in cashflow.

I also suspect inflation will drive continued migration to lower cost of living / lower tax states.  

Property taxes are 650, insurance 160, outsourced property management takes 10% of the rent, and another 10% of the rent is set aside each month for future repairs. 3750 x 0.8 = 3000. $3000 profit, minus about $2300 in mortgage, property taxes and insurance leaves about $700 cashflow, when I move out.

Originally posted by @Duane Alexander:Can resimpli replace propstream to look up property information like remaining mortgage, tax information, liens, mls history, mortgage transaction history, etc?

I want to take advantage of growth if possible, but also want to minimize taxes and fees (penalties).

I agree with the others here that say you need to have some skin in the game, if you are going to live there yourself, get an FHA loan rather than owner financing, you can get a 3.5% down loan, personally I do not love these as they require  PMI which is an additional expense, and you also need  bring additional funds for closing at least for taxes, title, attorney and transfer fees . borrowing from anyone else for the down payment, to include a personal loan from the bank is not a good idea, those again will be higher int. rate.