If you do not qualify, you would then look into if you would qualify with renting your departing residence. 75% of the lease will be used to offset that departing residence mortgage. as you mentioned the timing of renting the place can absolutely be tricky so you would hope you do not have to do this.Finally, and I guess would be sorta of a trick, but we do bridge loans on occasion in this case IF you can qualify once you get the property rented at market value even if debt to income ratio is too high before it is rented.

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One unit is remodeled and empty and the other is not and has tenants paying way under fair market value ($700). 

For calculating ARV, platforms like Zestimate, PropStream, and Reonomy use machine learning to analyze market data and comparables.

Joined bigger pocket to achieve my dream of owning a dream house in (already crazy) Hawaii market haha.

Are you looking into certain investment strategies to begin or certain markets? 

Quote from @Ivan Castanon: Quote from @Jay Hinrichs: depends on market most of FLA that wont move the needle.rust belt mid west you can find deals for those amounts.. going to be rougher areas of course. do NOT follow the advice of anyone suggesting second postions or gap funding.

Fort Worth is a great market to get started REI.

One year after I used that property to pull a HELOC and this year used that money to purchase an off market 4 family property in Clinton for well under market value, which I just recently finished all of the repairs and upgrades on.

you can still find good deals more west of the freeway in SLC or off market in SLC or south salt lake but they are harder to come by