No one tells you about the compact washer/dryers until you have a stackable in the kitchen and need to move it with limited space and start researching yourself, for example.

This all generated from an online business I started out of one of our spare bedrooms a few years back.

I have a full-time job, but in my spare time started calling a list of 150 absentee owners in a small mile radius and have put a 3 unit, a SFH, and hopefully another SFH (the last SFH is in the closing stages of negotiations) under contract making very minimal calls/week.  

Action steps are to read, listen, learn, analyze deals, and network every second you can spare.

And in this great country, specifically in the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the great State of Wisconsin, we have this truly extraordinary thing called a functioning social compact backed by the rule of law.What I'm getting at is that you don't have what you rightly perceive as the burden of making the decision to evict them.

I have rented out the spare bedrooms since I purchased it in 2016.There's a lot I hoped to do before the tenants moved in on the 5th, but some of the projects we started took longer to complete than we expected.

Are they good for investing spare capital?

Several of my friends bought larger homes like 4/2’s and rented out the spare bedrooms to graduate students or working professionals and made really good money.

I own and self manage 6 duplexes).Solution:- Keep building the relationship (pick your battles :)- Property Management ($$$)- Lock box for each property (to leave a spare key in), for contractors that you already trust. 

If you have a 200-300k budget you could buy a 4/2 or bigger house in Ewing or Pennington near TCNJ or RIDER and rent spare bedrooms to working professionals (bank of America, Glaxo Smith Kline, etc) or mature graduate students for $700-900/month and have it pay for the house.