Luis, I'm a Special Operations Army Vet and work with a group called Active Duty Passive Income.

If the goal is income generation then the goal should be to invest money outside of your income properties to generate the maximum "safe " returns.

An LOI is just that, a letter of intent with intent being the operative word.

@Maria Marrero  Dept Service Coverage Ratio or DSCR for short, is the amount of Net Operating Income ( NOI ), which does not include your mortgage, Divided by Total Dept Service (TDS) ( usually mortgage payments, equity loans ) so the formula is: DSCR=NOI/TDS.

However, I don't want to operate blind to opportunity.We're just past the one year owner occupant requirement in our duplex hack.

Some 8 Cap buildings can generate high cash flow and high DSR while other will be lower DSR and less cash-flow. 

Many people use them either as a last minute fallback when they can’t purchase any of the properties they chose during their 45 day period, or as their last 1031 exchange as they are a completely passive income generator.

@Graham Richard Anderson Search engine optimization and Google Adwords are by far the best lead generation methods.

Transactions take time to go from listing/buyer agreement to closing. 6 months may seem like a long time but if you're educating yourself on the business while working on lead generation/conversion you'll be in better shape than most people starting off.Another tip would be to consider joining a team.

Then I'm told by architects that duplexes are built to a different standard than three plexes, like requiring fire escapes, which by appearances change the nature of the neighborhood, often generating opposition.