@Kyle Carter, The strategy you're looking at would be what is called a "consolidation exchange". followed by a conversion to your primary residence. 

Hi Dave,The topic is 2 years old which you might not have noticed.Closed at a 7 must have been urban core in a highly desirable area.I am seeing trade at a 9 here with no rent bumps in the primary term.For anyone wondering many tenants are credit tenants.There is a huge difference in that INVESTMENT GRADE tenants are BBB- or higher.The ones below that are considered junk status by many lenders which doesn't make them a bad investment just harder to get financing and more to put down.The dollar stores (there are 3 big brand companies nationally) with other smaller regional knock offs are okay as long as you are not buying in obscure rural locations.The fronts are usually brick facade and the sides are sheet metal.You second and third generational tenant will not have the same per sq ft sales they will leaving you with less of a re-rental return.Having said this I have seen some very nice all brick ones where the city required a certain architecture and look to approve the building permits and process.Those typically run 1 million in price to 1.2 versus the cheaper ones in rural areas at 500k to 800k.

Others required that the house is a primary residence.

Primary home is a little easier but for FHA and other programs it requires 12 months title seasoning.There is something called delayed financing that if you purchase a piece of land and pay for the home "All Cash" without a mortgage you can get up to 80% LTC.

I guess I could do some work-arounds -- maybe reserve one unit in the first purchase for use as an AirBnb, and reserve my own time in it when needed - instead of claiming it as a primary.Are either of you (or anyone) familiar with a finance product/loan that will allow me to purchase under $150,000 (w/ strong credit) and do much of my own work and live-in a portion as a primary residence?  

So if fuel costs goes down a third, overall production cost for that good goes down by 1%.

Your primary insurance policy with $300,000 in liability coverage should be sufficient in 99.999% of all lawsuits.5.

I'm curious what your primary concerns were with reliability when calling the 6 providers.

Originally posted by @Arsen Atanasovski:I’m a realtor, you don’t need one for a off market deal, main point if you agree to the numbers take all your paperwork to your local title company and they will do the rest, if you want to pay someone 3% like me go right ahead in the end, title calls your agent on any missing docs so basically nothing I might get a lot of negativity on this post but your buying as an investor and realtors really most of them don’t even know what an investor is, they are a realtor for the end user and make fat commissions on primary properties. 

Is this for a primary purchase or build to rent/sell?