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If its in the city where off street parking is a huge perk and it has a legal curb cut then I would keep the garage in most cases. 

One of my properties the city condemned it and had the lady removed before I bought it, and it was so full of roaches they had to tent the entire house and cut away the bottom third of drywall from rot and mold. 

Who will cut the lawn? 

Yesenia,Feels like a straightforward DSCR loan, base it mostly off of the cash flow of the property itself inside an entity and maybe take a bit of a leverage cut as a foreign investor, but very doable.Do you have an LLC already established? 

As things stand I would be surprised to see any rate cuts this year.

Matt Penland with State Farm was able to get me better coverage and cut my rates over TN Farm Bureau. 

The financial decisions are rough; if you can't mid term it or long term it and wait out appreciation a bit then its probably best to cut your losses.  

I think we will some more small hikes, and I think we will see some small cuts, but ultimately rates will continue floating in the 6% +/- range.  

Problem being it would be a large pay cut initially I presume and would need over 2years of full time work in financial planning to qualify for the CFP.