I don't have any exemptions since I'm an investor (primary homeowners have homeowner and supplemental exemptions which brings their taxes down significantly). 

Keep in mind that you must live somewhere so if you can simply supplement your home payments via a househack and gain equity by forcing it, plus market appreciation and amortization, you could be successful.

. $265 per unit per month since we acquired it, easily beating our initial projections.The property is financed with a Fannie Mae loan and we have completed one supplemental loan since acquisition to return a significant amount of our partners' capital.We continue to hold the property in our portfolio.What made you interested in investing in this type of deal?

ya I dont think the younger folks really understand the cost of health insurance when you get into your late 50s 60s etc.. we just got on medicare but even with medicare and our supplemental it went from 2500.00 a month ( which self employed folks like landlords have to pay themselves) I think we are down to maybe 1500.00 or so..

On doc to far right is the updated "supplemental" ordinance.

The reason I was thinking of Home Inspection is that I've been around my father's construction company my whole life and it's straightforward and will supplement my income while I get started with Real Estate Sales.

I second @Daniel Gibson recommendation to get involved with local groups; it's a great way to network and learn about local issues to supplement what you're learning from places like the BP podcasts.  

In short, these are great supplement tools to make screening or receiving payment more convenient, but they are not substitutes for developed intuition and property management.

@Devin Redmond Do you feel the goal of Stessa is to replace Quickbooks (or other software) or just supplement them? 

Supplemental rental income?