You can use conventional financing, up to a fourplex, and if you live in one unit you may reduce some of the property tax for the space you live in as it is your primary residence and you can also buy with very little down as opposed to buying it strictly as an investment property.Duplexes are a great option and you generally also always have at least one paying tenant and can be bought similarly.

The note space is HEAVILY regulated since 2008 and continues to add further regulations which to me is a good thing as there are far too many bad actors in the space. 

Always looking to meet new folks in the space.  

When the lender brought up the issue, he just said that he needed more backyard space for his kid and it was a non-event.

My family owns REI Nation & we operate in the turnkey space primarily in the Southeast.

I'm new to BP as well, after years in the SFR/RE space.

Large commercial projects with multi-year triple net leases are much different from a Mom & Pop small strip mall renting spaces to other Mom & Pop corporations.

I am here to be a sponge and to connect with other experts in the rental property space.

Many loan officers who work primarily in the owner occupied space will try to argue that DSCR is more expensive and have higher rates, but that is simply not true in most cases. 

We currently have a pool table and foosball table for guests in first floor living space, but was thinking of adding a ping pong table in garage.