(My experience is in buy and hold rental, mostly duplexes and quads.)As I put myself out there, people interested in doing deals are coming out of the woodwork so fast it reminds me of Worthington High School back in the 1980's when I was the one of the first kids my age to get a driver's license and a fake ID, and could thus combine the services of transportation and beer acquisition.  

With those three pensions combined we will be over our $5k per month goal but we have to wait until we are 60.

So, it's a combination of criteria, but talking with your lender to find out that criteria is important in your pre-qualification.

In definitely see how that could sink the deal now.As for PM, I was considering self management using the BP landlord resources combined with a service like Cozy since I'd be on the property.

It's a combination of gaining more knowledge (which you're already doing!)

You can also do a combination debt and equity.  

Beware that combining personal residence exclusion with 1031 is highly complicated, especially in your case.3.

The combination of these developing and affordable markets with great potential from the population increase, combined with already developed markets is what I feel makes Columbus great.

Limit is two pets or a combined weight of 150lbs.From what I'm reading though, I need to look at just increasing monthly rent. 

I'll admit that I'm not well-versed in how to analyze comps for anything over 4-units (although I've begun reading up on it).5-bed SFRs and 4-bed duplexes in the area have sold for around $230k, leading me to believe that if I combined two of the units into 1, making it a 4-Plex, it might allow for some easy equity, as well as allowing me to refinance into a low-interest conventional loan.