For some, simply holding the portfolio you own and paying down the debt satisfies their investment objectives but someone like yourself who is looking to scale can't achieve that at the pace you may necessarily want if your real estate is stagnant on appreciation unless you have additional sources of cash you can throw at new acquisitions.

If you start filling up to quickly then you might be too cheap. 

The neighborhood I'm looking in is a pretty rough, which is why homes are so cheap, but the opportunity is there to provide clean, safe, and affordable housing for a Section 8 voucher holder.

Average rent around 2k/month which is cheap out here.

And it's not as cheap as many think, especially in quality areas.

I'm a newbie to real estate investing, so little words are very much appreciated :)Big picture if it helps: I'm exploring an all in one so I can plop extra savings into it until I'm ready to purchase additional properties and then can pull the money from the all in one for a downpayment elsewhere and then will continue to throw money into the all in one from my main job as I save for additional downpayments.

However, if you move too fast you could get into the wrong property, or area, or not take into account certain expenses, or get a terrible tenant and you may say this real estate thing is a huge headache and not worth the hassle and you may not pursue it with as much vigor going forward, or worse throw in the towel altogether.

Just be careful of chasing properties in cheap, Class D neighborhoods and expecting Class A results.

And we know there is NOT rampant "bloat" in rent prices because if there were, it's also simple math that landlords would be rushing to create additional units to capitalize in that "pay day" right, because it's "bloated" rents, meaning over sized profit margins, which to be true would mean it's "cheap" to create new units vs the over sized profits it's producing.......

I'll throw it out there as an option, knowing that no one is really going to take it.Your proposed transaction is low leverage, so very good terms should be available, but FDRs New Deal in the 1930s (which created the kid-friendly home loan ecosystem -- home loans commonly had 10 year balloon payments before that, even if you put 50% down) was only for homes, not for CRE.