It will take some time to find a property that fits your buy box (price, rent to price ratio, etc).For primary property leases, you have a little leeway about when you move it. 

Does anyone know if you have to have a primary home to get a vacation home loan for an STR?

You may be thinking that’s a great deal in of itself (and it is) but the caveat to that is that it would be my primary residence for a year and then I would leave it to my parents to continue paying off.

The pandemic fueled it more with everyone moving there.

The primary lessons learned were the value of a good contractor and staying on top of their work on a daily/weekly basis.

Mortgage on my primary goes from $2000 (PITI) to $2830.

I personally don't know if you can get assistance for multi-family- it just says "primary residence".

I’m going to have them start paying there own fuel as soon the lease comes up for renewal but I’ll wait until it comes up again after that to bump it up the $50.

You may want to consider living in the property for 2 years so you can get Section 121 exclusion of gain on sale of primary residence, especially during our market.

Purchase price: $255,000 Cash invested: $14,250 We purchased this as our primary residence in July 2018 and immediately started house hacking.