Our goal has always been to bring in enough cash flow to cover ALL of our living expenses. 

While Section 8 appears to promise "guaranteed" income, the reality is quite different.Section 8 typically covers about 80% of the rent with tenants responsible for the remaining 20%.

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You'll have proportionally less upside and thus less room to cover errors and overruns on a project with a new team you'll be far away from. 

As I am seeing 1.2 or 1.4 million 2 family house and not sure if its even going to cover the mortgage or not with 25% done. 

Zillow also hs a "Make Me Move" feature you can click on to see home owners listing their property in hopes of a good offer.I have also seen peopl reach out tp local AFL Assisted living facilities to talk to the Admin or on boarding nurse to see if ay families or people need to sell their home to cover costs.

Sorry if you covered this and I missed it.

Newbies always want someone to cover their mistakes when things don't go as planned.What have you done to solve YOUR problem?

So in reality our MTR rent -- especially in the off season -- pretty much covers the utilities, furnishings deprecation, and another hundred bucks or so, at least in the off-season. 

lastly there are plenty of locks you can put on these switches or covers which you should invest in.