In addition, you'll have 16 months of land-lording experience as opposed to none if you wait 32 months.

You cant charge a fee but you can still file an aircover request if the dog causes damages or additional cleaning. 

Where the electric is provided by the city they have additional power to lien the property owner, some places will not even send the bill to the tenants only the owner.  

Additionally, the property I have is in Wayne Twp, which passed a school referendum, so I had to pay double on it.

Once you have educated yourself on being a landlord you can turn the additional rooms in your unit into rentals.

My work in the home over those 4 yrs as the renter had raised the value of the home in addition to the 4 yrs of appreciation the house had naturally.

I personally purchased my most recent home with an assumable loan that has a 3.08% interest rate and it is saving me THOUSANDS every month on mortgage payments and additional principal debt paydown!   

Something to think about is that you may have unforeseen costs, holding costs and additional closing costs on the refinancing. 

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