For example, if you raised rent by $25 a month that is not likely to trigger them moving but it does help control the gap that could develop between your rent and market rates.Each year you skip widens the gap and makes it harder to close and more likely to trigger a move. $400 is tough to recover in one change without triggering a move.I have learned the hard way that I really should not skip rent increases every year, even if they are small.

My husband and I bought our first home at 22 and looking back, we're extremely glad we made the jump (wasn't a househack but my comment still stands). 

I live in North Dakota so we get all the weather extremes.

I used to do lease options 20 years ago, and it seems like a great way to wrap around without trigger a sale or breaking any terms of common notes.I have a $1.3M property with a 1st of about $850k at 3.25%(or somewhere around there). 

Doing a cash out refi of your DSCR loan to pay back the funds from your HELOC would trigger that penalty. 

I have had many, many problems with contractors over the years that were 100 percent their fault, but I have also had a quick trigger on contractors, not realizing that none of them work they way I want them to, but it's whether or not they are working better than the person you would have to get to replace them half through the job.

You maybe be able to live for free or pretty close to it, depending on how extreme you get with it...AND make some decent cash when you sell as well...especially on the 5 year plan vs 3.

this is extremely common late BK or reinstatement. happens all the time in court house steps deals to all of us that play in that sand box.

The market is extremely hot around Boston/north of Boston so I continue to expand my search area but I am getting into markets I don't know very well.

Wise who seems extremely knowledgeable.