If the numbers work when I run them, I know reality should only be better.ActualsPurchase Price $227,500Interest Rate 30 year conventional 6.375%Homeowners Insurance = $920.21Rents = $1,900 per monthTotal mortgage + escrow = $1,182.58 per month with rents at $1,900 my actual cashflow is $717.42.Additional numbers behind the dealTotal cash to close = $87,475.55Down payment = $80,000Homeowners Insurance - $918.36Rate Buy Down 1.283% - $1,892.43We paid to lower the interest rate by 1.283% over the course of the 30-year loan.

I’m looking at a duplex and running half as STR and the other as mid-term for travel nurses.

Quote from @Blake McWilliams: Using and running a CRM is what you need to help the business you have in real estate grow.

I always run the numbers as a LTR to be safe. 500k is steep for a duplex but it all depends on what each side will rent for.

My biggest piece of advice is to run it like a business especially with the tenant next door.

I was thinking a bridge loan might be an option , and then refi it later and pay back the bridge loan,  but I'm waiting for lenders to reach back out and run some numbers.

Be sure to ask PMs about the vacancy rate in the areas you’re exploring to help you run your numbers.

Human nature is fallible and any business that exists out there is run by humans.

It's hard to get checks quickly, I know, who takes a check, but I've run into this before.

Anyone that is looking at your assets is always going to need to factor in property management, so you can show that as a real expense (and really make it as high or low as you want).I work in a vertically integrated real estate and development company, and I cannot imagine how things would run if we did not have an internal property management company that essentially works for the other companies but also stands on its own.