Plus weekends are going to be your bread and butter anyway, so this strategy could work great. 

Don't listen to her buttering up.

Purchase price: $615,000 A bread and butter 2/1 1600 sq ft duplex.

These are my bread and butter properties, and I want full control over future mortgage expanses.  

While not scientific, a good rule of thumb is if it's a bread-and-butter south city duplex/quad without much 'pizzazz' (think formica countertops, slightly dated kitchen/bath) in a so-so or even decent area - stick to long-term and don't waste your money on the furniture or even slight rehab.

Over the course of a year my wife and I fixed it up, rented to friends, ate peanut butter and jelly, did everything we could.

Lots of our bookings come in with a 2 to 3 week lead time, nearly every weekend booked, 3 day weekends are our bread and butter reservation. 

Personally, I think house hacking is one of the best RE strategies (and it's the best way for a beginner to get started)--so that's been my bread & butter for years ...though, I've also done BRRR's and a variety of forced appreciation strategies, too... 

SFH / SFR’s are the bread and butter of REI!

I am not happy sitting till the late hours writing SEO for my website.I am not happy telling a seller that needs money for their sick child's operation that I can only pay $70K for their house instead of $120K she should be getting.I am not friggin HAPPY to drive all over friggin damn CT looking at houses that may or may not lead to a damn deal.What drives me, is when I see people like Brandon doing podcasts from friggin Hawaii while I am freezing my monkey nuts off hustling so I can be able to be free, and live life on MY damn terms when I make it.I used to stare at a bag of crab legs in the super market.my mind says NO you greedy animal you can't afford it, while my belleh says  .. dude, that with butter.. are you kidding?