If you do, do a short-term lease that ends sometime in the sweet spot of Boston area rentals.- Spend some time thinking about how much to spend.

I think the $1100 - $1400 rent sphere seems to be a really nice sweet spot for family centric neighborhoods where I am looking right now.

@Adam Horvath The wall outlets with the built in USB are sweet.

Woman... for 1000 a month I could get a sweet little DMM campaign going which pretty much will give you much better chance to actually make money!

It also won't mess up the sweet interest rate you have on your first mortgage. 

If it's a sweet deal, then they could just delay your proposal and jump on the phone....Maybe it's just me.

In all likely-hood you will loseYou can also take minimal risk and get very small returns like a CD paying 2%.The key is to find the sweet spot in the middle of those two with enough diversification to protect you from one bad decision.But back to your original question.

It would probably also work better if you were buying a single family home, because that would pull more on the "aww how sweet" part of someone's brain than moving a family into a 4plex.

My roommate pays $600 and I am letting my brother stay with me at a discounted rate of $150 (he's buried in college debt) So I am breaking even every month instead of making a profit, but it has been sweet not paying rent/mortgage.

Just not sweet as we'd like.