If your willing to do so, you can live in the casita and then rent out the main home and have your tenant pay the majority/all of the mortgage (depending on what type of deal you find obviously). 

Obviously, if there is a large hole in the wall or they painted a different color, then you can charge them to paint.

It's easier to manage this property now that I sold the other one.I still have to see how much I will get hit by the IRS for 2024 (which is when I sold the other property)I have considered selling the one I have left (in 2026) but I would lose diversification because then I'd have 90% in the Stock market.

Quote from @John Mason: If you are wanting to get ahead I would pay the  100 usd on fiverr and get it done and  then go to next  step  in  your journey and then learn the way to do it on the side so that you do not lose time..hope I made sense I do that now.

I was able to qualify for about $95k in 0% business credit cards (for 12 months), I then liquidated the cash and used a portion of that to obtain the hard money loan that covered the balance of the purchase cost.

Most landlords wait for a problem to land in their lap, then they waste a ton of time thinking, worrying, researching, and bleeding money before they ever take action.

for double closing you would need your funds to buy then sell it to end buyer at premium. there are transactional funding companies that can lend the cash for a fee.

If you are talking about 2-4 units, then it's really no different in my opinion.

Personally I could not justify investing $11k in a course that teaches you to rent a property then turn around and rent it to others. 

Most of the BP guests are pushing a course or book or something, so they appear on the podcast and then disappear instead of hanging out in the forums to help others.