I suppose I could combine the two ideas and live in a basement while renting out a 2 bedroom home to a traveling agency. 

The combination of generating extra green cash with a biz and then investing in real estate for long term weath is the way to do it.

Text isn't an officially acceptable way of relaying this information here.On the somewhat rare occasion when I deduct from a security deposit, I send an itemized list of the expenses deducted to the tenant's new address via certified mail. 

While opportunities still exist, I think they are still rare with interest rates and property values high.  

It is rare that you sell a house through an open house. 

I have several rentals that I can sell with combined equity of 600k+.

That's the reason there are so many fourplexes and so few fiveplexes or even sixplexes.From what I gather, post offices and utility companies rarely care much about the permitting/zoning issues, so it probably wouldn't have been hard to get those set up.

 - recognize you are combining 2 if the highest effory rent models: student rental and rent by room. 

If in the rare chance they do allow short term rentals in the HOA rules/regulations and association documents, don't be surprised if they change that ruling after you buy. 

Now most of my deals are a combination of our business money, bank money, hard money, and private money.