A lot of forever houses on the primary side and buy to hold forever are far from forever. 

(Keep in mind controlled group rules, meaning if you own a business with W-2 employees, you often can't just setup a side business and open a Solo without giving benefit to your W-2 employees with your main business - another area not often discussed in this industry until it is too late). 5) Lot's of pros with Solo 401(k)'s as you can tell from above with the UDFI exemption on debt financed real estate and ability to make larger contributions.

Sure, there were a few hiccups along the way (like when a shipment of materials got delayed), but with some late-night calls and a bit of creativity, he turned it around.On the flip side, turnkey properties offer immediate cash flow with less day-to-day hassle.

It is also why such neighborhoods are most likely to appreciate because those who own properties in these neighborhoods are on the correct side of the supply/demand equation.Since your post is focused on Philadelphia, the city has good fundamentals...strong Ed's & Med's, good accessibility to both NYC & DC, own port, international airport etc.

And it's written under the pseudonym of Sean Cook by Paul Kaseburg.Paul’s sat on both sides of the table on over $2 billion of real estate deals.

Also you can look at it as diversification with one side of the duplex section 8 and the other not. 

You can develop a coalition of other STRs to get other on your side.

I cannot think of a way that you (the LL who stands to "benefit" by them repairing their own space that they are paying you to use) will come across in a positive way.Plus, the tenant who incurred damage due to the other tenant's leak, may have some legal rights to have the tenant with the leaking pipes pay for the repair in both spaces.Now, beyond the legal side, you also need cognizant that most mom and pop tenants (which I assume these are) are not great with their money.  

I don't see this being unfrozen until (a) the moratorium is over and states move forward with foreclosures and (b) United gets better stood up on the originations side.

The flip side of having to refinance is that you will be able to use the equity that you build in the property through the renovation to pay for the loan costs and possibly pull some cash out.