As long as you reside in the new house for 12 months, it shouldn't matter how many other properties are in your name.However, the owner occupied contingency is not just leaving one of the rooms vacant and changing your address.

These costs should be passed onto the tenants (as long as the market rate will allow it). 

As long as the bones are sound and you aren't dealing with leaning, major sagging or other structural issues, then why not dive in?

Sure you pay HoA fees, but as long as you can cash flow, the actual damages are minimized since you only have to care for the interior.

They need to be structured in a certain way to do so, but as long as you are willing to bring a large chunk of $$ tot he table, most will accommodate.

As long as you have some prior experience I would think 20% down with a lender funded rehab budget would be a possibility.

As long as moving, cut down on my living expenses, I believe I could make things work.

Certainly she wouldn’t hate us.Two days later, we got a call from the sellers Estate Attorney who read to us the statement “Tim and Rod are never, ever to purchase this property in my life or in my death as long as it remains on the family”.So, he jabbed us again even from the afterlife!!

and that is legal.As long as there arent any disputes... 

I don't know the US tax laws, but in Canada we have two options as long as we are consistent in how we do it.