Additionally, he is probably not motivated to leave since he is living for free right now.

@Mike Dorneman that was my thoughts exactly, would be to find a partner that has a process in place and bring additional funds to the table that would allow them to either move into larger deals as you mentioned or a greater amount of units in a much shorter time frame.  

Purchase price: $300,000 Cash invested: $15,000 Bought this house purposely close to a college and lived in one bedroom and house hacked the additional 4 rooms, Dropping my house expenses down to approx 200/month.

Sounds like I'm paying an additional .375% and it's out of my control. 

I will strongly consider it as an addition or change to my lease.

All the income through the duplex is untouched other than going toward expenses as it is solely being used as a retirement investment as will additional real estate purchases.

The context being today's market.Assumption: the new asset would be in addition to your existing positive cash flowing portfolio.Requirement: the new asset’s cashflow cannot be negative.  

@Jay Helms yes for sure , whats the facebook page i’ll add it

That means getting it listed on MLS with a competent, full-time Realtor.NAR studies (and there is admittedly a case to be made there for bias) have consistently shown that homes that are sold through a Realtor fetch more than enough additional money to cover Realtor commissions. 

.- use the attorney at title and add it to the HUD-1We use a clause in the note that waives the right to defend a foreclosure in default, so the property returns to the seller without contest (varies from state to state I imagine)We also pay the sellers closing costsAll of this stuff is negotiable...you can always push things with these...like lower the down payment and have the buyer pay all your clients fees and your commission, etc.Give me a shout if you want to chat more about this topic.