Now that house has been rented out for the past two years, and I want to buy another possible duplex or triplex to house hack.

Keep your focus on how many crappy properties you can buy each year, instead of buying fewer but better properties.

Hello, looking to potentially use a hard money lender in NJ. Can anyone recommend some stand up lenders I can speak to? Also if any NJ agents that are familiar with using these and transitioning out of them can reach ...

So if you make you buy box too tight, you will find very few deals that will fit your buy criteria. 

Even then, all of my booking.com clients are American I offer a 25% discount 0-3 days out. add a 15% fee which essentially covers your commission. set up with one hour to cancel, flexible / strict option but no refund 60 days out or later. sync it with Airbnb and or the other ones you are doing.

We went from buying light rehabs to buying major foundation and mold issues to make numbers work until even that did not work anymore.

For a long term investor:Would it make sense if you could buy the home at a steep discount and then let the owner stay rent free for a specific period of time?

I would suggest you do both of what you suggest - meaning get either a new mortgage (more conservative route) or HELOC on the townhome and use those funds to buy your next investment property.

Quote from @Jaycee Greene: @Orlando Johnson Are you still looking at buying this property?

Otherwise, get a HELOC to access the equity to buy a home in AZ.