I did a majority of the work myself to cut down costs and do the property management.

Consider also having landscaping done such as cutting the grass or shoveling snow. 

Section 8 would cut down on management expenses, rent collection issues, vacancies, etc.What is the quality of your tenants?

It sucked, but paying someone for asbestos protocols is hideously expensive because they can't cut corners that a homeowner might.

Plus, if I end up successful enough at it, I could cut back on my hours at work. 

@Basit Siddiqi I have not heard back from him, so i guess hes cutting ties or discontinuing his business.

where do I look for the best rates and when applying how do they know if it’s tied to a 504

Current property manager seems to do a great job but is paid almost %11 of gross and also cuts grass for additional pay.

Also, we decided to let any home owner who wanted  to stop paying their mortgage for 6 months with out a clear cut plan on what happens at the end of the 6 months.  

The SFR we would want to make our primary residence as soon as the current tenants are out, but because the duplex is tied to the house,  my current lender told me it would probably be a 20% down commercial 5 year ARM loan and hasn't been helpful since.