Plus you would have to keep the lawn well groomed according to City Ordinances so you wouldn't get tickets, etc. 

We have given some thought to that and may even start grooming our current maintenance man who is far more than that. 

Thanks so much, @Presley Grooms, and congrats on getting past analysis paralysis and jumping in.Was that 3% loan FHA or another program? 

Thank you @Presley Grooms for the info!

@Antonio Grooms you may want to look into house hacking.

✅ Family and business rarely mix: unless it's a parent grooming a son/daughter to work in the family business, I'd advise against doing it.✅ No one is going to care about your property as much as you do: if you are lucky enough to find them, compensate them well.✅ Vet your service providers with the same scrutiny as you would prospective tenants.✅ Maintaining good tenant relations are essential to the financial viability of your property.✅ Vacancy will kill the financial viability for bldg.

@Bryan Grooms Travelers for SF and Safeco for MF

Or maybe it goes and picks up groceries, dry cleaning, takes the dog to grooming, go to maintenance, picks up kids from school and takes them to soccer.I wonder what we do with all the garages at homes...that have 2-3 car garages? 

I know some of them have Commercial Arms within the brokerage but I suspect those folks aren't fooling with duplex's or SFR rentals.Also for the average investor who might just buy a few props a year going to be pretty hard to break into a actual top producers rolodex of go to buyers.. they already have themI like to groom newer to mid term agents to my specifics and help them grow. 

Some put out signs and are not sure what to do after, teach them and groom them.