When your tenant stops paying and communicating, who will knock on the door to see if they still live there?

Quote from @Sarah Kensinger: Boston is not STR friendly unless you live in the property.

He lives locally, is very responsive.

The lighting is a little dark in the picture but this will be a lovely/bright kitchen and living room for our next resident.

Many illegal immigrants have been in the country for many years and live with families or friends that may not need to vacate housing because other will stay. 

Now the living room and 2 bedrooms that just had new flooring put in them 8 months ago are ruined from the leaking water from the HVAC and have to be replaced again.

Living in top unit and renting out the bottom.

Buy a property when it feels good is when you are buying your primary home where your kids will grow up and you'll live with your family.

But this was an awesome opportunity for me because this is my first living situation where I will be on my own (and getting used to paying a rent/mortgage) but this will put my overall mortgage on a 400k house at roughly $2000 a month for the first year!

After 25 months, If they can prove that they lived in the property for two of the past five years, they can sell it as an owner-occupied residence.