Good luck with getting this tenant to accept higher rent, because you've trained your tenant to think they have a "mortgage payment" that never goes up!

This would allow you to maximize tax deductions at ordinary tax rates.

To me, having one mortgage payment for 2 - 4 houses (basically) always seemed interesting and like something that would give me more bang for my buck. 

Those are spray and pray techniques that don't fit with sellers right now because sellers/owners are sitting on a very low rate and don't want to move to go up 4-5 points on their rate.Listings aren't a start now thing as well.

.- PM is a licensed handyman, or has them on staff, and takes care of most unit turn work at a reasonable rate. - PM has no breakup/termination fee- PM does not take project management fees, except on large or complicated CapEx projects exceeding $5,000. 

I have some clients who prefer to have a PM for maintenance/contact/rent collection/general management and will place tenants and write leases for themselves in exchange for a reduced rate.  

Less than 10 minutes and they are done.Self Managed, Low Volume - these folks collect the same rent every month, have minimal expenses beyond their mortgage and find it very easy to collect the few documents they have to report it. 

However, value add with a sale is not as implacted by rates.  

Uptick in action in the secondary mortgage markets I suppose?   

Interest Rate: 6.5% per annum (fixed)5.