I've seen people agree to a balloon in three years, then have difficulty refinancing because they don't have enough equity.

I would think this to be very difficult.. I

I've had success finding female tenants in the past, but for some reason, I'm having difficulty attracting them these days.

Your difficulty comes from the plan that you will live in it for 5 or 6 years.

Both of these may impact your DTI.One of the difficulties in holding properties for a long time is that equity builds up (either naturally or by forcing with renovation), and I need to sell or refinance to get the equity. 

The worst part is the difficulty of getting rid of poor tenants.  

You will have difficulty in enforcement here.

Hi all, I've been having difficulties finding the correct search criteria for properties that have a store front or office space plus residential quarters.

I've read a lot if posts about the difficulty of vacating a tenant, how would one go about raising the rent for said tenant?

we own a piece of property that currently has 2 4 unit buildings on it, and we are in the planning phase of building 16 additional units on the property. the financing doesn’t seem to be an issue, but we are having difficulty wrapping our heads around the steps / sequence we should be doing things.