Don't get involved in their drama or try to make the rental fit their budget."

If your strategy involves short-term rentals, then single-family homes could be a viable choice.

Using rental income via a short term leaseback on the new residence will not help your DTI unless you're getting financing as in investment property - it will only give you cash income to pay for the new mortgage until you sold the old home and actually moved.

I’ve researched the rental market here and it’s pretty good.

After completion of construction, do we condoize and sell the single family and ADU (separately) and keep the DADU for rental and living while in town?

Investment Info:

Small multi-family (2-4 units) buy & hold investment.

Purchase price: $302

Cash invested: $7,500

Multi family unit

What made you interested in investing in this type of ...

When I've studied my competition in the past, I see people ripping into cabin rental companies, Vacasa, you name it, for things I think they'd never complain about at my place.

What would be safe neighbourhoods, reasonably priced and investor/ rental friendly.

@Abigail Irvine so you don't show enough income to qualify for an owner-occupied mortgage, so that leaves DSR loans on rentals as your only option.At the minimum 20% down required on DSR loans, your $20k barely gets you to a $100k purchase. 

Hi community,Outside of the bigger pockets tools such as the rental calculator, what do you use to do that math and understand how much to charge rent and determine where you to buy real estate.