There are 3 options. 1- We sell and split the proceeds, 2- they find someone to take over their half or 3- I buy their half out. 

I'm at point where I have an opportunity to purchase the other half of a Willed SFH from my sister at a fairly low acquisition price (about 150k).My contemplation has been the loss of DGI earnings (although I'd only be pulling out about 50% of my current stock portfolio and not touching any of my 401k).

I've lived in half of a duplex and rented the other more at more than one location in more than one city.My tenants knew I was the landlord. 

@Umar AwanThank you micro mailing was half the price!

@Brandon Miles My brother in law is in college.

Luckily, she needed to move before the lease was up and I gladly let her break the lease early and gave half the deposit back!

I suggest if you are committed to not buying a multi-family then you at least do what I did and look for a place with a detached garage apartment, it pays half my costs for the property and I don't have to listen to or interact with my tenant at all.

But I wanted to make someone else’s life a little easier for more than half the price.

I am not talking about rural areas (like where some of the DGs are being built) but small towns or the periphery of mid-sized towns where there might be 10-20K population in the the 5-mile radius. 

I drive a 13 year old car with 170k miles.