Get a roommate?

New roommates dog tries to eat my cat.

However now that I know a little, I will say that I have always acquired houses with the buy and hold strategy in mind.The Condo I got when I was 23 (11 years ago) I had just got back from Iraq, had some tax free cash, and this condo was my bachelor pad right in front of my college, I had roommates and they paid for the mortgage the hole time.

A few weeks ago I offered to pay a landlord upfront for quite a few months rent because I was looking for a shorter term lease (My roommate is getting deployed to Afghanistan.)

Not sure it's available for duplexes, but my son bought his first home with it, came to closing with $11 (after paying inspection and credit report, etc. outside closing, of course), and has roommates that pay much of his mortgage, so it worked out well for him, much better than renting.

Then you're free to discriminate/rent to whoever you like, because the tenants would be your roommates (housemates?).

I did this when I had a roommate who never changed her cat's litter box.

So I acquired a new building a few months ago and one of the units is occupied by three roommates (two of them are sisters and one is their friend).Their existing lease runs through October, but the friend is looking to move in with her boyfriend by July 1 and has already identified someone to sublet the apartment.

They are much more work (roommates, scholarship payments, semester changes, etc.).

I'm selling my toys, downsizing my house, getting roommates (which my girlfriend will not like), and working even harder at my job.