Looking forward to hearing your success stories in the future. 

If you can cover that $155/month out of your personal budget and rental income from the other half of the duplex, you might decide it makes more sense to keep your first property running at a small loss for now and reap the other benefits of real estate: principle pay down, depreciation, future rent increases, etc.Especially when you look at what it'd cost you to sell it at this point. 

I will be working my normal job for the foreseeable future as well.

So let me know how I can help in the future?

I am curious why you already know you will be here in the future? 

And I would really appreciate any future leads! 

*search this site using key word "house hack"5-why wouldn't you pull the equity from your house ( or leverage your house) and just by a rental property(paid off in 15 yrs by tenants, building equity for further acquisitions, future appreciation AND sale ) where the numbers will give you a specific profit, and you can retain your anonymity and personal space as a LL?

So assuming I will be buying more properties in the future, I will eventually be hiring a property management company anyways.

I do want to have rental properties in the future, so I thought maybe buying a home to live in for a couple years and then renting it when we leave would be a nice way to start that process, but just not sure if it's wise to do it now. 

Consider others strategies as well that might make sense for your current situation and future plans.