Even if you flip and lose 15-20k on your first deal..

I see a lot of traffic on FF for 2/1s, so we hope that will be really good to also MTR, or even LTR. 

Hope this helps!

( my thought on this is to keep them because I know what kind of tenants they are while keeping them happy) or Raise rents but puts be at risk of losing these great tenants?

Hope to connect, very interested in the Lubbock area!

My realtor is checking with the seller's realtor, but she's not hopeful that he would do that.

Normally in a spot like this, we would recommend to a client that you sell your primary residence and claim your capital gains exemption under Section 121, but you have two strikes against you: (1) you have not lived in this property long enough to qualify for that, and (2) I'm hoping you already claimed an exemption on the sale of your other primary residence a few months ago, and you can't claim Section 121 exemptions within 2 years of each other. 

Lenders have a million different takes on this type of loan, so I’d take everything with a grain of salt until you’re able to talk to one :) hope this helps! 

Thank you and hopefully I can connect with you!

I'm currently cold calling many mortgage lenders in my area (Chicago) to try and connect and hopefully have them has referral partners.