Purchase price: $463,049 Cash invested: $172,424 The sprawling, 1,881 square foot open layout and tall ceilings of this ranch style home allow for proper entertaining.

For student rentals, it was easily the best deal on the market.Worse, in other areas, there are restrictions that can be imposed down to a sub-neighborhood level on the percentage of renters allowed and the number of unrelated adults in a unit. 

As a parent, your job is to produce good, competent adult people.

Buyers are willing to pay $$$ for additional flexible spaces that can be used as office, gym, guest home for elderly parents or adult kids, or simply as rental to help pay off the mortgage. 

guests=1&adults=1&s=67&unique_share_id=2c502ad8-3b9a-4e4a-9cc4-99402b53b233 What made you interested in investing in this type of deal?

guests=1&adults=1&s=67&unique_share_id=2c502ad8-3b9a-4e4a-9cc4-99402b53b233 How did you find this deal and how did you negotiate it?

While people have made a lot of money on housing appreciation, and for many, this has been their entire adult investing lives that this has been a potentially lucrative strategy, this is an extreme fluke in terms of the overall sweep of housing market history, and it's not one that I want to ride out, waiting for the next crash.I am a boring person who likes multifamily. 

For one, if she was going to buy it herself she would/should have entered the listing and immediately marked it as accepted offer or something --- assuming the sellers accepted her offer and didn't want to entertain others. 

Type of neighborhood, access to highways & shopping/entertainment, all the utilities that will be included (even if they seem like little things) and any services you might offer as the landlord (Snow & lawn maintenance provided, 'FREE Heat', etc).

I wouldn't have thought of it if they were actual full adults.