You have to deal with property management companies that eat into cash-flow.

These were all sourced pre-CV19, so eat the fish and spit out the bones.Ridge Lending All in One, first position HELOCAFCU does 80% LTV on NOO.

What if there is a large repair or vacancy - without any other income stream or nest egg your father is going to be strapped and stressed.

Do you tell everyone eating a hamburger that beef is subsidized too?

Older homes tend to fall apart so they just eat up more of the profits.

Diversification - You can own several fourplexes spread across your target market or across several markets as opposed to putting more eggs in fewer baskets.Liquidity - It's quicker and easier to both sell and refinance a fourplex than a larger apartment property.Appreciation - Many investors believe that fourplexes appreciate faster than larger apartment properties.

However the taxes are high and if I house hack my mortgage eats all of the cash flow.

I would say that as long as it's a title company you're comfortable with, and the seller is willing to eat all of the costs, it's probably not a big deal one way or the other.

Why not have your cake and eat it too.

Anything else I'm trying to make pass through - I don't want to eat the cost of the expanded consumables though.