In both cases, I added mine later for logistical reasons - one house a neighbor on another street was using it as a cut-through and pushing a shopping cart full of cans and bottles all hours of the day.

What we find with young kids is as soon as they become young mothers they would prefer to stay at home & raise their children rather than the drudgery (& logistical nightmare) of working to pay the ever increasing expense of daycare & after-school care until one of the parents rushes home.

Once I'm gone, I'd also rent the top part and the basement separately (only logistic issue we have so far are that the laundry/washer are located in the basement and I'd have to re-arrange them for the tenant upstairs but this isn't a problem) because this is the only way I'd actually make a return on my investment.

But it's been VERY good to us here & now with kids/grandkids & the 23 hour flight, going home every year is too exhausting & a logistical nightmare so we just hang out in FL. 

I'm based in Columbus and think it's an exciting market for the below key reasons:In general, Columbus is a pretty economically-stable city: centrally-located (massive logistics hub at intersection of 2 major Interstates), large finance & healthcare centers / HQs, state capital, and a top-5 university by size (Ohio State - 60k+ students).

Logistics, Trades, and Fast Food.

And how can one logistically do such, it makes no sense.

I sympathize; there's guests I could listen to for half a day - the Chris Voss interview, I could have listened to 4 hours of that guy easily - but the logistics of it would be difficult.

The logistics are quite different and take a different skillset.

Since I live abroad outside the US, I'm planning on starting off by buying a single family home in the Kansas City, MO market with the goal of pure cash flow in the 100k-150k price range after rehab, using a turnkey provider for the acquisition and ongoing property management given that I have a full time job and the logistical challenges in orchestrating all the steps from abroad in buying a property.