I have done a live-in slow-mo flip on my first residence and built quite a bit of equity.

I am a life long Hudson County resident and work there currently.While I have experience some experience in Real Estate, I am eager to learn more and hope to engage and learn as much as I can from the forums. 

Option 4: Probably not an option as you recently purchased your primary residence so don't have the equity to borrow against.Option 5: Talk to a lender about mortgage options.

Oakland has strict rent control laws, like San Francisco, Berkeley, and many other cities, however there is an exemption for both duplexes and triplexes when the owner lives there as their primary residence.  

Hi all, I have been a real estate investor on accident for 15 years in SF Bay Area having turned a string of primary residences into rentals when I moved out.

I know that probably doesn’t answer all your questions but from our standpoint, we only do multi family, mobile homes and just a hand full of SF residences..we have never had a 4plex where every renter moved out at the same time, so relatively safe as far as that goes, much more than a SF that you cash flow is zero or neg when a tenant moves.

Enhance both of y'alls education and try to keep current.

I'm a real estate investor from mobile currently residing in Houston.

And as a local, late-30's area resident, looking for restaurants, bars, nightlife, shopping, thing-to-do, sight see...

@Howie Baker one of the main reasons that people have LLCs on rentals is so that they don't get cold calls or people showing up at their residence, they are also probably less likely to sell than mom and pop owners.