An additional possibly more important factor besides interest rate (which tends to be higher for an investment property) is call risk for the mortgage in the event of a market downturn. 

At that point, my thinking was that the home would be a great rental as  inventory in the area tends to be very limited.Short version of the situation is that the subdivision's HOA allows for only single family owner occupants. 

And remember, things tend only to get more expensive over time. 

The warm belt states experiencing high growth from baby boomers retiring and migrating out of the cold belt states have plenty of retail tenants small and large with expansion plans ready to go in those spaces.Typical time in most warm belt states to re-tenant and get rent coming in to dark STNL could be anywhere from 3 months to 1 year depending on box size, location, mom and pop versus regional and national tenants who tend to move slower and be more methodical.We are not moving to a society where people sit at the computer all week long and stay in a house and drop ship 50 packages by drones.

It’s also free to use, and let’s me block partial payments and enforce late fees (although I tend to waive them...).

Right now in Baltimore SFH (that includes Rowhouses) tend to produce better cash flow than multi family.

Got an expensive termite & crawl space repair needing to be done before closing required by the underwirter, totaling about 8K, including termite treatment, organic growth treatment, digging out dirt for enough crawlspace height clearance, stiff legs insulation, vapor barrier, 6 crawl space vents (2 powered & 4 regular), and 5 vent wells. 

However, I tend not to design my systems and process around outliers.)

We tend to keep our rents lower but now we have no choice but to raise them every year.

Vinyl windows of the exact same size as the the window holes on the front (even if they cost extra, because smaller windows tend to make the house look downscale).I'd then have the upper shingle texture siding on the FRONT sanded and repainted white and replace the faux brick with Vinyl siding that matches the siding size on the side of house to the right.