My unit is located by Rose Medical.

Strategy 1: buy a duplex, live in one unit (for one year as a "primary residence) and rent out another unit as a short-term / mid-term rental on Airbnb.

Speaking of whic, rent is due on one of my units today, and I got to log in and check right now.Hope this helps.Leon

You can 100% use an FHA-203k renovation loan on multi-unit properties up to 4 units. 

I am considering living in one of the units myself.

It's been a pretty cool journey and has allowed me to leave my W2, however, I've come to the realization that my current strategy of delayed gratification is no longer working for me.

Investment Info:Small multi-family (2-4 units) buy & hold investment.

I am a big fan of sophisticated value adds such as lot splits, coop/tic, leverage laws for multiple unit additions.  

DSCR loans are used to finance the property once you have tenants in the units.

CT isn't cheap so if you plan on doing it there you are going to surprised at how poorly you do. maybe in the suburbs I'm not sure but as much as I know people call us from CT and everyone is rich and has lots of money and things are expensive out there. build to rent is a great model. we build 3 story walk up infill and keep it to the residential side. 3 units is the most units before it's commercial and you need engineering, etc. check comparable and things liek that. we came up with this design a year ago and we sold 10 if you want to talk further please DM me happy to connect. there are some great build to rent conferences. we went vertical not horizontal with it to save on build costs and design to fit on any infill lot. this fits on a 3500 square foot lot. most lots in our area are 30x120 or 30x150. in miami where I live now they are 50x100 or so. but any infill lot we can pretty much get this one on. there are some great build to rent conferences coming up too that if you like this topic I'd recommend attending I'm sure you'd learn a lot.