All the what-ifs, and hidden costs that might break me.I'm narrowing in on a live-in/ house-hack in a duplex with an existing two car garage, with the intention to immediately convert that into an ADU for myself, until I soon thereafter refi. and start the process over.Maybe on the next one I can have the confidence to go with hard/ private money cash buy/ rehab. 

I'll let you know if things start breaking. 

That really is about as close to a no-brainer path to wealth as you can get in this world.If the dollar goes to zero the entire social order will break down.

Of course it all depends on the neighborhood, not too cheap but don't break the bank! 

A friend of mine recently (2 months ago) changed jobs which required him to move from Colorado to Oklahoma.  He was leasing a house in CO and the lease extends through May 2021.  He realizes that he's generally on the...

The allure of an appreciating market and job growth sparks our interest, but at the same time, rents in the price ranges we're looking for will bring us a break-even situation at best for the foreseeable future.Then there are the tertiary locations where housing prices are much more affordable, and we could probably acquire doors more quickly, but these markets don't experience the same appreciation.

If 61,586 people moved to Austin in a single year then mathematically Austin would need an increase of 24,933 new construction homes/apartments to break even at 2.47 persons per home.  

Had a guy ask on the tour if it would be ok to break the lease with 30 days notice! 

They basically hold the building liable rather than the owner and that liability transfers from owner to owner until someone deleads it and breaks the chain.

Even if you break even on the current property out of the refi, you can take that large amount of cash and disperse it more selectively into cashflow markets with out all the messy up-leg business.