I cannot afford any single family home in mountain view, and I don't like to live more than a half hour drive away from my house.

I cannot afford any single family home in mountain view, and I don't like to live more than a half hour drive away from my house.

There are a few homes in the 215k-230k range if that makes you more comfortable, but you usually get what you pay for.The price of your first rental should be what you can afford and fits your investment strategy.

Our goals has always been to buy a duplex and house hack it; however, we have been looking on the market for over a year and we have not found any duplexes we can afford.

I plan to use my VA home loan and am thinking it would be a smart idea to team up with another veteran to afford a larger (3-4 family) building instead of just getting a 1-2 family building (depending on the prices that I run across). 

I've also negotiated deals with large manufacturers like Lamborghini, Rolls Royce and Kawasaki.So that is one angle, but what about just traditional rental setup where I try to find long term tenants who can afford to pay $4600+/mo to live in a large 6 bedroom house?

I have a day job as a strategy consultant and live in NYC, so I'm looking at markets that are more affordable than Manhattan. 

Some want a nice pavilion for cooking out and entertaining.

These properties have strengths of being very low mortgage cost, room to grow rents over time (they are almost 2% rule), and in a affordable rental class that seems to have a major shortage in today’s world.

Existing tenants are more likely to resent you and cause problems, or they'll be unable to afford the increase (despite their best intentions) and get behind on rent.2.