I am perfect at loitering.

Paul market, but house hacking is the perfect strategy for newbies looking to break the ice with real estate investing.

@Linda WeygantMakes perfect sense when all I would really be doing would be causing problems where there isn't one anymore.They did renovate, repair, and replace everything and there isn't much more they can do about it.Just viewed it from my perspective if I lived there.

We have perfect credit and $80,000 in cash reserves as well for contingency (hopefully it eases the process).What can we do to take on as much responisiblity as possible? 

In a perfect scenario, I would like to clear $200/month in cash flow.

@Jerome Hanson Perfect summary of what I meant to say.  

Do you know that I gave them an eviction notice the first time they were late and they have been PERFECT ever since.

It makes perfect sense to only put 3.5% down, my thought process was that it would lower my mortgage payment, but you're right it wouldn't be by anything substantial.

This is the perfect place to find answers to all your questions.

@Joel Owens @Ryan Jenks  just to add to the conversation from personal experience.I have two collogues that against my council  sold there perfectly good west coast multi's to try to scale up in units and go down in asset class.one bought C to probably D in Memphis rubbing their hands together at the 15 to 20 cap they were going to get.. they lost 400k in 18 months on it and could not exit quick enough.. only locals can handle those.the other sold her PDX 60 unit for a 5 cap made 700k... bought 300 unit C class in Oaklahoma city. because of the 10% cap being touted.. and after the managers and maintenance folks stole her blind guess were she had to move to. it was her entire net worth wrapped into that property.. 5 years later ( took her that long to stabilize and get decent enough books to exit for what she paid for it.) she sold moved back to PDX bought a 20 unit and condo on Maui  LOL...