In other words, while renting to medical professionals can be a good niche in the right market, don't limit yourself.

I would suspect you may be able to get around $5k and maybe $10k max for a loan based on the income. 

It's the kinda of thing you can only do in LA (because of CA's ADU-friendly laws and LA's HCOL), and it's a real game changer here.Good luck!

Ask yourself based on your personality which investment will match better with you as each strategy is different.

He doesn't seem to want to help in that department and instead provides buffered repairs numbers that are based on nothing.I will say, I do have a great PM that is always there come inspection and tells me the hard truth, but I don't want to continue wasting his time on duds.

Based on the rental estimates, we would net about $700 a month in surplus income since our mortgage is pretty inexpensive.I'm looking to get any and all opinions as I want to make the correct choice for us and also want to make sure I don't screw anything up if we do decide to choose option 2. 

The scammer had the typical terrible grammar/spelling and illegal word usage ("looking for good Christian tenants" etc.).

I am a buy and hold investor in Florida looking for an asset based lender to refinance a Condo .

I also know that a duplex, while slower, is the safer, more conservative approach and on my single income.Either way, for the second property, said another way its like small steps every 16 months or bigger steps at 32 months based on my current saving rate.

I would anticipate a primarily residential to be there, but primarily commercial might be around mid-9s to sniffing 10, based on where the 10-year is and how it would cash-flow