A two-family where you live in one side and rent your other rooms to friends and then rent the other side (maybe even do mid-term rental or short-term) with a much lower downpayment is potentially a better producer.

I'm selling my primary home which has a $1700/mo income producing rental used for MTR/STR.

Anyways, I am a single mom of a 2.5 year old little girl, and at the age of 32 have finally gotten to a place where my financials are in order (I graduated from college a bit later in life after teaching acting and producing plays throughout my 20s!).

Value is a function of the income the property produces.  

Taking its output and sending it to a embeded computer that also has a web server on it is what you are looking for.

Lenders have expanded their guidelines to allow for up to 85% financing assuming healthy credit and income is producing above what the debt obligation would be for the home. 

Also consider the mix of assets in that is one producing good cashflow and another appreciating above average. 

You want to make sure as a long-term hold it will produce 5%+ CoC return, and once you finish renovating & stabilizing the property, it will be worth at least 15% more than you bought it for.

Yes, they are projections as they are new, but the amount of due diligence and research that goes into those is so we can produce positive results for our clients.  

STR's are the most management intensive way to produce cash flow on a property and Tokyo is 9 hours ahead.