We're in the middle of renovating our house, getting visas, finding housing in Portugal that allows dogs, planning a US road trip, and pairing down our entire lives into a couple of bags.

So instead of one expensive loan with <25% down, you can finance it with a pair of cheap loans (which will often yield better results, lower total fees, better cashflow, etc)...

I need to buy 3 pairs of coin op washers / dryers for 2 4-6 unit properties.

For people getting started, offers backed by FHA financing, down payment assistance ($194k income limit for down payment assistance paired with Richmond prices... viable AF), 95% LTV on 2-4 units, etc, are viable.

Be really careful to pair up like interest, and like age people.

What about that pair of boots you want to get for your kid at the yearly ski boot sale?

Many big high flying tech companies have been pairing back and sub-leasing lately.

Would you recommend me to get an FHA loan and live in one side so I can get the highest ROI I can get, or pair up with my parents again, and just put 20% down and have 2 tenants in there right away instead of after a year? 

I believe MI is at risk of imminent collapse due to likely reduced new funds coming in paired with increased scrutiny from the law(though when something has already collapsed, can it collapse further?)

It's like poker, the idea is to make the right decisions at the time... if you have 2 pair and fold to a big bet on the turn to a guy with straight or flush.