I imagine there are a thousand ways to combine these and I’ve seen some very convoluted deals.

I also build in a fair amount of flexibility combined with limits with my condo renter (Pelican Pointe, in your neck of the woods) and it has kept the same tenant in there for 2 years now.

This gives the first floor comfortable modern spaces, not the small older living rooms all ranches had, open kitchens with custom cabinets and high end appliance packages, and master suites with marble baths.

  =)  Nashville is also dealing with some housing affordability and gentrification issues - when all the builders are trying to tear down the older homes and put up modern mansions, things become complicated in the big picture. 

Being on the owner’s end will give me more freedom to design the projects that I want, be in charge of my own product as well as my financial success.That has brought me here and one of the tools I’m using to achieving my goal is to both flip, and hold property (as well as any number of combinations of the two).

not too modern or too antique.4. the center wall in the living room (to the right of the large window), what would you do on it?

However, lenders typically don't call a loan when the payments are consistently current - they sometimes do, but not as a rule and not usually unless they have a reason for it.One way around "due on sale" is to combine subject-to with a sandwich lease option.

Through the combination of fighting our property taxes and winning and raising the upstairs tenant's rent by $50, we are now going to be cash flowing about $600/month.

What works best is flipping, house hacking, and/or buy & hold investing in high quality RE purchased below retail market value, with value add opportunity, with a combination of your own capital and fixed rate debt.

What are some other parts of Newark that may be a good combination of ROI and decent tenants?