House-hacking is certainly the ideal way to go.  

Mailers to Vacant land owners (only in specific areas where development is ideal) 9.

The place will be a solid B when the new paint is in, but with another bath and new doors, trim, etc, could easily slide into A territory, ideally adding about 2-400 dollars in cash flow.Thanks in advance for the help!!

My goal is the FEWEST high quality units that will keep up (and ideally exceed) inflation and pay my living expenses (with reasonable margin) ... beyond that is just extra hassle and extra risk for the privilege of buying a yacht to try to water ski behind IMO (or some other useless toys that ends up owning you and serves to only stroke your own ego).

The most ideal rental properties in my area go for around $200-250k.

I may have found the ideal unit, I'm going to view the house this weekend.

I'm planning to run my home steamer over it to get it ideal.

Hi all, what is the ideal payback of a 30 year loan?

Of course, i have seen the "take the expected replacement cost and divide it by the expected life and into a monthly cost" approach...but that seems too idealized to be practical, never mind that its impossible to predict how long something will actually last.Thanks,

Joint bank account is likely not the ideal idea here - need to make it a true lender-borrower relationship, co-mingling funds like this in a bank account makes it more like an equity partnership which is a different animal