Doing the math, it would cashflow wonderfully on its own as an investment, between $200-$300 a door/mo after 50% rule and mortgage, with some updating and raising rents closer to market rate as a result.The catch here is that I would like to owner occupy my first purchase, partially for ease of managing the property, partially for some lifestyle flexibility (namely pets) that come with owning your residence as opposed to renting.Do folks looking to owner occupy their rentals work out the math on a property including they rental they plan to occupy as part of the cashflow/door calculations or is it more common to try to make the numbers work under the assumption its a 3 unit property?

And you get the benefit of having over 80 past ones to catch up on.Two Great reads, I bought both J.

Especially since you're not updating the kitchen, you'll want something nice to catch a buyer's eye.Also a "very dated" kitchen is a big concern.

And you get the benefit of having over 80 past ones to catch up on.Two Great reads, I bought both J.

And you get the benefit of having over 80 past ones to catch up on.Two Great reads, I bought both J.

I've been slowly catching up on the podcasts and I am finding out what a rock star you are!  

I'm currently in No. 60 but catching up and learning lots of great stuff.

Again, it is always good to have a contractor with you when you are looking at these properties because they might be able to catch something you don't see.Good luck,Andres J.

Then after realizing that I'm nowhere near capable of building a wordpress site on my own, I turned to freelancer.com (looking to post the project for about $150 or so for a simple 5 page website on an eye catching responsive theme[free from google] and shouldn't take but a week or so to complete).

There seem to be some relatively cheap multi-families on the MLS in Ogden, (1-1.5%) especially when compared to other areas along the Wasatch front... but I'm sure there is a catch.