If you qualify for both (you've lived in the property long enough and it is used for investment when you sell it) then you get to take both.

He wants to live in one and use the other for his studio. 

If you have every lived or have family you are visiting anywhere in the Midwest, that's where I would start.  

I needed to buy my first investment and also needed a place to live.

This will get you 90% of the way there and should be sufficient.It works the same in a saturated area, it's just more to sort through.You are aware that STRs in Denver are allowed only in certain zones and you must live onsite?

Almost anyone with a real service animal, would have had it with them at the viewing.On the application next time, have a box that asks if they have an animal that will be living with them-not a pet, but an animal. 

I won't be able to make the cottage legal rental without living in the primary home myself.

I live and invest in Milwaukee since 2007, so probably a little bias here, but we are set up very well for future growth. 

Hey Michael,What market do you live in and why are you looking in Cleveland? 

lived in Ocala few yrs ago.