@Glen E ... selling a home is always easier when it is vacant.

You can also maintain many sources of invested liquidity (plus a day job) to mitigate risk with a leveraged real estate portfolio.Regarding fewer properties/hours worked, that position assumes that you have to continue to leverage and buy more properties.  

An option is to fix the rent payments and lease with or without cost of living adjustments until seller agrees to terminate or X years expire.

From the start, it was bad but now the windows are simply falling apart and the Low E coating is coming off.  

.- Stay away from MHs all together:  direct mail expired listings of nicer homes in good school districts with the deal type being lease / option or buying subject to.  

Amortize the allocation on Schedule E for your rental units and on Schedule A for your residence unit.

Hello Rae,The first step to answering your questions properly is to understand your credit, experience and liquidity.

I've stumbled across a few that were for sale and done well liquidating them for the owners but I'm not sure the best way to look for potential SFR Portfolio sellers. 

(Background: i am evaluating whether to keep as rental or sell as i will have to pay capital gains if i keep it after August - when my capital gains exclusion expires)Cash Flow = Income - ExpensesExpenses = Mortgage, Taxes, Insurance, Maintenance, Fees (e.g.

So theoretically a 30 year mortgage would expire after 42 years.