Everyone has to live somewhere, and if you are intent on owning your home, and your expenses are less whether the unit next door is empty or occupied, then from a purely financial point of view, assuming you are renting now (or own, and the potential appreciation of the two properties is even), you might as well make the move. 

Installing the metal is a joy, because it's so quick & easy.  

If it's not clear enough to handle by myself, I don't take the tenant to court, pure and simple.

I will happily, with a giant smile on my face, buy a property that has a minor negative cash-flow year 1, and jump for joy at the acquisition, if my prospectus is good.

Pure investment so the costs are a little higher.

I think this was pure laziness, and rather than being forced to justify his amounts, he just went and found some reason to change the values without having to do extra work by adding a higher priced comp. 

So someone who is looking purely to maximize potential return (and has unlimited time) is unlikely to find this a good fit.Good luck with your search.

If you have measured goals of real estate success, if you actually want to integrate into a community and help improve it, Pittsburgh is a point of pure light on the map of the USA.

What makes a self-directed IRA custodian different is that they are not purely connected to the public exchanges and limited to investing in stocks, bonds and funds, but rather have the staff training and paperwork to document the IRA's investment in the more individualized transactions that occur when investing in real estate, notes and other non-traditional assets.

What makes a self-directed IRA custodian different is that they are not purely connected to the public exchanges and limited to investing in stocks, bonds and funds, but rather have the staff training and paperwork to document the IRA's investment in the more individualized transactions that occur when investing in real estate, notes and other non-traditional assets.