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Mortgage lenders will qualify you for a higher purchase amount for multis than they would on a single, because they will count the rent you will be making on the other units as additional qualifying income for your loan application.

It is DSCR based and no personal tax returns are required to qualify.

These properties can provide cash flow and diversification while qualifying for favorable residential loans.

We will be moving but I like to owner finance what is left on the mortgage at a higher interest rate because I do not need to pay it off to qualify for our next home. 

Whoever qualifies for that probably won't need them.Yes many GPs have experienced hardship but you can see those who really care about what they are doing and those who don't.

If you do find that the costs to maintain the investment property are too substantial and you'd rather sell down the road, it would qualify for a 1031 exchange since the property was held for investment use.

Hope is a bad strategy.The only on market strategy that I think can work is paying cash/line of credit/hard money for a property that does not qualify for conventional financing.

@Aaron Raffaelli, I’m sorry to hear that you are having issues qualifying.

If substantial renovations or capital improvements are made in later years, those improvements may qualify for new bonus depreciation.3.