But know your budget will be the biggest influence of all this... it's extremely hard to find deals w/ out putting money into them. 

I suspect selling now would be the best choice, given the market and lack of capital gains (under threshold).Not sure how to calculate this easily – I've tried using the BP rental property calculator, but my numbers are all off since we've already lived in the house 8 years.

That'd be the ideal scenario.

Setting goals should be the number one priority for anyone seeking success.

Bigger Pockets author Chad Carson will be the speaker at the Sept 20th meeting Contact me if you need info on this or other groups in town. 

I anticipate this won't be the last issue from them and will be ready next month as well.  

I could then charge the upper unit tenant $25-$30/m for wifi and that might be the extra incentive to charge $1000 for the bottom unit.

And are all 2bed/2bath with average rental rates in the area for that size being around $1000-1500month.My field of work usually will get me 50-60k per year(pretax) and isn’t hard for me to find workWhat would be the best type of loan I should pursue?

But if you have no money, a private investor putting up 10-20% and refi would be the way the go.

I know there are several sources out there to obtain lists so who do you guys consider to be the most cost efficient?