That was  in case of the event that the seller was not available or willing to complete the transaction when the time came.

The slightest oversight can result in a negative review and lower your ratings on the OTA you're using.

Prior use will not impact other than lowering the amount of depreciation you'll have to recapture.  

If not, focus on that first and if you're interested in turning that transaction into an investment read about "house hacking" here.Have you been to the REIA meetings in your area?

You just may need to install an interior door that doesn't allow the upper tenant to access the lower unit.

Lower inflation (disinflation) just means at times shelter costs were rising less-fast.

I had to lower the price of one side slightly do to lack of interest so that was a bummer.

Yes, but as he has to put his cash flow somewhere, he’s going to have his overall (all investments of all his money) return reduced anyway: he will have a high(er) return on the real estate he has and a low(er) return on his cash flow investments, whatever they are.

This trapping of value would not allow someone starting to scale (I have no issues being able to scale), but it does help my cash flow (which is not good even with the help of the lower rates, it would be huge negative cash flow if I refinance extracting the value with the higher rates).In summary, the rates make brrrr challenging as the extraction of value at today’s rates results in large negative cash flow in San Diego.  

I did have a big problem last week where it set my summer prices on Airbnb at $100+ per day lower than on Vrbo and Houfy, and that caused me to lose $600 on a 5 day booking.