Excellent Post @Sean Cole!

I feel like purchasing a duplex, living in one unite, renting the other out, and purchasing a deal where the numbers work correctly to where my living expenses would be paid for by my tenant, would be an excellent way to not only help me achieve my goal of paying off my student loan debt, but also help me get a taste of what land lording is like to see if it is a route I would enjoy taking. 

I was going by the 87.5 percent rule The average home buyer cannot buy the 1588 sq ft condos downtown  for $675,000  I'm two miles from downtown 1/4 mile from Canada  There is still excellent opportunity as the prohibitive prices expand into adjacent neighborhoods.Dan Gilbert (Quicken Loans) owns more than 100 buildings downtown and is currently building 4 more 1 is costing him around $800,000,000.00 for the one building Hudson's Department Store Site It was supposed to be the 23rd tallest building in the US but it got shorter with his massive stroke and Covid 19There are areas that I think will come back faster than my area did ( buy for $10k put $20k into it worth $150-$200k in three years) The only point I was making was I NEVER understood why people cited Detroit as an example of good cash flow but no appreciation.The appreciation has been unbeatable.

Then find a mortgage calculator online or-if your're savvy with excel-build your own for future use.

I don't invest as much as you in debt, I prefer equity but your track record in PoL is excellent.  

Brandon Turner has written two excellent reference books on both Ultimate Guide to Real Estate Investing and Managing Rental Properties.

Excellent context.  

Excellent suggestion, @Brent Coombs!

Austin Peck we use our pro forma in excel to play around with numbers that both make sense for us and the seller.

What I can tell you, as a startup, with few properties, the tax return alone can eat up most of, or all and then some, of your profits.