The third option would be to buy a preexisting 4 unit, but they don't appear to be priced anywhere near 450k.Being that I have not arrived in Portland yet and haven't been able to drill down solid numbers in order to put pencil to paper, my projections may be way off. 

Two of them normally arrive in a travel trailer with 2 bedrooms. 

I make it brutally clear that I own the property, I take care of it, and I have pride in the product I’m offering.I also make it clear that if you don’t do your part as a tenant (pay on time and care for the property) you will have a cross between a Paris Island drill sergeant and a pit bull (me) relentlessly on your @$$ determined to take you down and grind you to dust in the process for being such a putz to arrive in such a situation, and I get the job done too.

@Steve Bracero- I agree, it is a difficult habit to start, and takes a lot of self discipline at first to stick to, but I have found that now that I do save (pay myself first) I can't imagine going back to what I used to do (i.e. spending all the cash before the next check arrived...)Good for you that you started right away!

At some point the system breaks, the Black Swan arrives (trade war with China?

However, that's taxable income and there are deductions you can take against your total income to arrive at your taxable income (aka "adjusted gross income".)

I tell them the next guest will arrive very soon, so they need to go.  

LOLZ.I see the God has arrived in this thread to answer OPs prayers in the form of @Brian Hall!

. :-)  hahaha I like the answer, so it's like Mars before Musk going to arrive there :-) 

Outside of the W/D dryer issue I think we have arrived at a much larger point.