If you are trying to further decrease your initial cash outlay, you might try to pursue a closing cost credit from the seller as part of your offer where you ask the seller to kick in a certain amount of money at closing to reduce your closing costs and thus some of your initial out of pocket cash spend.

If you told me you were going to live there for the next 5 years, then that's a safer bet in my opinion.Another thing you may want to consider is to turn the other unit into a short term or mid term rental to increase the income and decrease your living expenses. 

After 6 months my opinion is that this momentary dip is going to curve back up - and in my market there is 0% evidence of actual value decrease, only asking price decrease (BIG difference).  

Buyer interest in all types of homes decreased over the month.

I expect at least a 20% decrease from the peak back in June/July 2022.

As sponsors mature in their journey the return and deal structure they offer to attract capital to their projects generally decreases. 

Foundation issues are also a great opportunity because there are many of them and decreases the buyer pool because it's "scary" to tackle. 

This decreased the cash flow by another $200

Even if you are living in one of the units, you can still take advantage of cost segregation to increase your cash-flow and decrease your tax liability in those critical first years of ownership.

October saw a sharp decrease in new listings, down 13% for the MSA and 18% for the City of Austin.