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. 

Move if you have to in order to get promoted, geoarbitrage, save more, invest, automate, cut spending to only what adds value to your life, invest the rest.  

Example would be I bring a deal to them, and they just decide to do the deal and not cut me in. 

I'd *think* this would be okay for me--tying up passive income wealth in a corporation where I am the sole shareholder seems reasonable in building my portfolio.

Took about 4 months to negotiate the deal because it was tied up in a multi-property package deal.

It would be nice to move out of New York ...out of the US really, but I'm tied down as a local business owner.  

We screen very thoroughly but stuff happens and things can change having the flexibility of not being tied to a one year lease is great, and besides our vacancy rates are low-about 1.5% max

Built after June/1976, on a permanent foundation, some states require hurricane tie downs, and the well and septic are within legal distance form tank/home.