If we wait and buy in 26 she would move in and let others rent with her and hopefully cover the mortgage. rent is super expensive there!.

However, I'm hesitant because the rent wouldn't cover the new mortgage, putting me net negative monthly.

Not every state or city mandates that any landlord has to accept Section 8, because the landlord has to not only subject their property to Section 8 inspections, rules and regulations, they also often have to separately arrange for the tenant to pay the non-covered part of the rent and can face difficulty evicting just based on that.

Hello everyone, I purchased my home two years ago, and currently, I have a tenant renting a room for $800, which helps cover my mortgage.

I would start a water line replcement business make far more money doing that than we would owing rentals :) On a related subject you have the waste lines that were clay etc.

With that said, here are some questions I would ask myself about the situation: Historically, have the students paid enough in the 9 months to cover all the expenses associated with these properties?

Use a reputable expert like @Dave Foster and you’ll be covered.

You may want to look at concessions to help cover costs or buy down your rate to a comfortable payment. 

The buyer would need to show solid financials also of course (good credit, experience operating rentals, proof of funds for down payment and adequate reserves to cover any unexpected cap ex).

One thing I'm trying to do is to test different cover photos to see which ones draw a greater % of click-thrus (which seems like a reasonable thing to test).I'd like to be able to view the Airbnb stats to see, for each cover photo I test, things like what % of people click through on it.