Purchase price: $125,000 Cash invested: $55,000 Sale price: $260,000 Fully renovated gorgeous Colonial style home in one of Gardner's best neighborhoods.

It looks like a "ring base station" is required to make these work, not sure if there is a work around, and also wondering if you'd need your own dedicated wifi in the house to connect all this too Owning a few properties myself and as a property manager for other investors I am imagining now the calls I would be getting when this system isn't working properly, batteries die, motorized lock stops working etc, so living in new england with the elements and temperatures we experience I would not recommend this to the owners of the properties I manage I have an up down style 2 family with a common entry door that sounds very similar to your setup.

A single purchaseWhen you relax these, laboratory style variables, you find that tax timing is intensely important.

I know people build this in horizontally all the time, for style, so I would think that it is possible.

It looks like they probably cannot afford the rent because they had a squatter style room setup: all mattresses were on the floor with no box spring or bed frames, lack of dressers or basic furniture in bedrooms, no place for clothes/clothes were piled on the floors, no decoration besides computer printed B&W images taped to the walls.3. 

We are ok to holding off on our dream home and will work hard to get some investment properties in place first.... what would you advise us to do - buy a smaller 3 bdrm & 2 bath (we would like ranch style) and get another similar one to invest?

InsuranceGuess which one is the most important.....management style.

House was build back in the late 40's and needed to basically be gutted and redone on the inside as it was an old camp style house.

How goal oriented are you? 

We’ve reasoned that if people continue to need to hunker down, we want to offer isolation in style.