cut my mortgage in half, or live for free in the duplex. 

We are looking at trying to find something that we could rent say half the summer and use the other half.  

When I was last in the market and looking at lower-end properties about half of them had a strong urine odor.

I also paid the PMI up front, so my monthly payment is very low, about half its rental potential. 

And you already have more in your "portfolio" than probably half the members on the site.

Refi back to a 30, cut my mortgage in half and have more monthly to invest.  

What I found is that cash buyers are half-doing their marketing campaigns because they are inundated with rehabbing properties.

Rates are kind of all over the place in Rome. 3/2 apartments outside of down that aren't very desirable can be $750-850.Downtown lofts ON Broad Street (the main road in our town) are all between $1,100 and 1,800, with half the square footage as our house would offer.Downtown houses near ours, but with 1,000+ more sq/ft than ours...rent for $2,500 or more.To the best of my ability, once it is renovated, it will be very desirable to our target market tenants (young professionals).

"Owners build equity, tenants build a shoebox full of useless receipts" is a half truth.

Her boss has been very cool with my wife and now just expects her in the office for 1/2 day of a day but pays her a full time salary and works from home to the other half of of the day and it is fine.