The time back will free up more time to increase your active income, or acquisition of more rentals to get you more cashflow (passively or actively).

I'd underwrite the property, with that low interest rate assumable mortgage, to cash flow positively from day 1 as a long-term rental, but be willing and able to use the rent by the room strategy or to rent out part of the property as a Short Term Rental to dramatically increase cash flow during my occupancy. 

For more expensive properties, the flat fee means the credit/refund increases exponentially, like $19,000 on a $1 million property.4.

not everyone wants to be a landlord.. there is a whole bunch of real estate that does not include landlording.. or landlording at small SFR levels so take those comments with a grain of salt  those investors basically focus on that one thing and that is buying the next rental to increase their cash flow by 200 a month.. 

Just sent them a rent increase notice every year.

Based on that, do you anticipate increasing or decreasing your investments?

Only reason I've been doing it is to get 0% business credit card limit increases.  

Hi Ethan, I would not entertain the idea of getting more money from this tenant in order to potentially increase your cash flow. 

We signed P&S agreements on 6 different properties totaling 20 units approximately 8 months ago and received a call today that the price we thought we were buying at has to-be increased on average 13% due to the increased cost of construction.

Duplexes provide privacy, flexibility, and scalability, but strict short-term rental regulations may increase upfront costs and maintenance.