The only thing that keeps me from owning a house for my personal use is the baggage it comes with like maintenance, time and overhead costs.But I understand It'll cut costs and is something I should really think about.Thanks

Until you see the property in person the numbers are completely meaningless unless you have a working relationship with that listing broker for years.

Several options you can explore to get the down payment capital: Solo401k; HELOC on personal residence or from equity of the SFR; Cash Value Life Insurance Policy; Business Credit; Private Lenders, to name a few.

Work with your commercial lender/insurer/lawyer/personal banker and see if they know of any interested parties.4. 

Then the person is soured on gambling on real estate and not around here to answer questions. 

Some owners expect their PMC to actually be a personal assistant:(How did you set expectations for this client when onboarding them?

“ cash flow returns” almost always compare horribly to a simple bank CD after you deduct for insurance, prop taxes< vacancy, capex, prop management (or your personal time.) etc etc etc. 

My lease has a sublet fee (2 weeks is guest by lease more than 2 weeks in a year is sublet) that is costly enough ($100/night per person which is about what a cheaper hotel is here) that makes sure tenants do not have others move-in without informing us.

I enjoy hearing about peoples’ personal wins and innovative, creative strategies.  

And then you can use that information to start to develop your own personal due diligence method: Crowdstreet.com, 1031 Crowdfunding, Akr7, Finresi etc.