The only way you're really going to know if you fully qualify with keeping your current primary (to turn into a rental) is to talk to a lender or mortgage broker and see what's possible. 

Have a co-signer to be able to buy the property since I’m still able to afford paying the mortgage even with the initial negative cash flow.

Arranging financing, forecasting cash flow (it's not "rent minus the mortgage"), managing contractors, managing tenants, managing property managers, dealing with permits and city inspectors - it's a lot more than the average person realizes.

One tip that I use is to reduce the useful life by 25% vs what’s noted online.

The script that worked before doesn't anymore so need to tweak it lolAlso, online lead gen but it's pricey at $3,000 - $5,000pm for the campaign and for a small company like ours that's more than 50% of our revenue 🙈

I would recommend working with a lender or mortgage broker who has an NMLS license.

Hi everyone, stumbled across this site tonight online looking for contracts lol looks very useful so I signed up! 

But here I am, trying to put a really strong offer in on a home and I’m not sure if I should go in with the mindset that it’s a 3b/2ba 1,895 sq ft or a 4b/2ba 2,055 sq ft… Seeing as I’m going to rent this one day, if I myself decide to get it assessed/permitted as square footage (which I don’t know how much of a pain it truly is), I ran some rent estimators online (RentCast.io) and the rental comp differences between those two scenarios is about $2,275/monthly vs. $2,600/monthly, which is huge!

If you're just buying 1-2-3 a year to me way too much of a time waster, to save you and your agent time.I'm guessing by what you mean is the access to the Seller's disclosure and any info posted online by the listing agent? 

Brokers with exceptional communication, negotiation and experience will be at a premium, especially those with finance or mortgage experience for creative structuring and/or established relationships with listing brokers.