I can afford to do one of those, but not both.I think my best move is to rent out my condo ASAP, and move into a temporary rental myself, so I can begin my rental income history ASAP.  

The inspector said his biggest concern was temporary patch jobs in the roof...so I am lookingThe real estate agent is finding, but I thought I would do my own research for learning purposesI asked a friend who said his guys usually don't come for an estimate in escrow, but rather if work was getting done.1.)

HI Everyone I am moving from Pennsylvania  to Houston Texas and looking for temporary housing for a month till  find place to rent, on other word the area where i want to rent. 

On a multi-family unit, if you have to have 100% vacancy for an entire year, you need to be employing your exit strategy unless you have certainty that it is only a temporary situation - i.e. you took the building offline to do a major renovation of all units. 

In fact I suggest that you would be paying ABOVE normal market value, supposedly justified by their very temporary and limited "guarantee".There are many BP threads, blogs, webinars and podcasts devoted to helping us find deals that DO have built-in equity (and cash flow).

@Martin S.Hi Marin,Sorry to hear about your current tenant problems, but remember it is only a temporary problem and can be fixed and corrected to make sure it doesn't happen again. 

., temporary housing)?  

For the time being (since we are not married) you can assume that I would purchase the temporary house/condo and we would be married and then purchase the long term house together.  

The situation should be temporary and resolve itself within the next 12-18 months. 

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