At that time we could renovate the ground floor apartment and potentially turn it into (2) apartments for a total of (5).My questions come down to how do we deal with the existing 40k mortgage, whether we can make it work so her parents aren't paying much in rent, if anything at all, and whether or not we set up any legal entity, like a trust to help the legal situation of paying off her sister down the road. 

And then, with every new program manager we get it seems there is a new idea about what color scheme will be better to keep the clients calm so we repaint them walls at least with each New management change that occurs.

So this reason I rented the unit.

I started investing here in 2016 so it's been 8-9 years for me.

So I carry effectively 0 debt. 

I want to purchase my second property within 4-6 months of moving into my multifamily house hack, but looking for a guidance on the strategy to do so.

I provided a free rent back for 2 weeks so the seller could get her funds and relocate.

I hope to revisit this post a year or so from now and tell you what I've done with the help with the amazing people around.

So maybe think this through a little more.

What would you do in my shoes I don’t invest there so take this with a slight grain of salt but I’ve heard multiple stories of basically this exact scenario someone getting offered a big payday for something in Cumberland, rejecting it & always for some reason (house burned down, block got worse, sheetz decided they actually didn’t want someone’s land for a car wash after all) always selling for like 10-20k and regretting not selling.