Investment Info:Single-family residence buy & hold investment.

Also make sure you are comfortable with some holding costs if the units don't get rented right away (if vacant).Also look into if there is rent control in the area that the property is located.

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Need so much more info to actually be able to shop rates  :)  No points, 110k, SFR, regular purchase financing, the house is worth around 140k.

In addition to a voucher, we require that the tenant be able to show income at least 1.5 time the monthly rent, as opposed to our regular tenants who must show 3.5 time monthly rent.

If you need that equity that soon you may just consider holding out to sell the house outright5.

Transcribing transactions from bank statements, posting transactions to the correct accounts, and then manually creating an income statement, statement of owner's equity and a balance sheet is a fairly time consuming process and I have not been able to keep up with the book keeping between my regular work responsibilities.What accounting software do people recommend? 

If you have a building background, I would work with an architect and build some unique places that are stick built to hold the equity value better.

And that's not even taking into account the regular tenant BS.

I currently own a few properties here in Bryan-College Station, I have a full time sales job so try to stay as passive as possible. This is why I haven't done STR or anything. I'm currently only cash flowing about $10...