However, its downfall (and really what makes it so easy) is that it is a single-entry system. 

Originally posted by @Tony Vicente:I'm looking at a home that's zoned "R8", contains a single family home that I'd like to convert to multi-family.R8 includes both single family and multi-family.

If you kept the property, and accumulated the CF/yr, it would take you 25 years to get that same equity that's sitting, frozen in your property.Also, if you cashed out and used that same equity as a DP on different RE, at 20% DP, that equity would buy you $2M in PV, not just $700k,...and, I'd be willing to bet, you could find new RE that would have a yearly CF well over $20k/year.On top of that (remembering my initial statement above), any appreciation applied would be applied to $2M, not just $700k. 

We specialize in managing single-family and multi-family homes, with a portfolio that includes properties in the Indianapolis market.

It is flat out not worth the headache, impact to other members and having to find new members anyway to fill all the spots that left because you wanted to fill a single room. 

Single family homes are usually the best as they have fewer limitations.

Thus, I think that we could see national rents rising in the high single digits, or possibly surging as much as 10% in 2026 vs 2025, with some markets seeing rents rise even faster than that - Austin, TX regaining much of the lost growth in 2024 and 2025, for example.

This is a 4-bedroom, 2.5-bathroom single family house.

What we really need is a single internet "bad tenant" list to warn each other.

Lower appreciation than single family home