I look forward to hearing from the nominee on his plans to help spur more economic progress in more under-served areas like the ones that I live in, work in, and invest in and hope he will help extend and expand the Opportunity Zone Tax Credits. https://www.jtcgroup.com/insights/opportunity-zones-have-done-what-they-were-created-to-do-will-that-be-enough/https://eig.org/opportunity-zones-research-brief/

I am not looking to leave my W2 and want to make sure that the properties I invest in are solid and would be something I would want my wife and daughter to live in. 

You can also double hack these if you have enough units and live in one unit and use one unit for your business, but of course that decreases your cash flow but increases your usability.You can also use an FHA loan to get a mixed-use property with only 3.5% down if the residential square footage if more than 50% of the total square footage.

Because the last inspection passed everything the 1st time except the fact that he had clothes were on his living room couch thus inspection was rescheduled to ensure tenant cleanliness. 

I do plan to live in the vacant side at least for a year, with a VA loan after a year I can take out a loan on another property.

I will be going down there in a couple of days, and interested in building/developing/investing, I am a licensed Mexican Architect, I have friends living there as realtors, US investors, and US builders ready to pull the trigger. 

I’m reading Lend to Live right now actually.

What makes it slow in this case is that you don't really start seeing real cash flow until after year five but it's more effective than rentals in that there is little to no maintenance.Sure you can live in a home while fixing it up with the intention of selling it for a nice profit later but I think many people are already doing that and the buyers of slow flips now also have that opportunity without having to qualify with a bank.

Plumbing company says its the only way to resolve the issue I live in Jax as well and have run into this issue as well.

Similar, there is rules for footage to count as living space.