Comment by wepple
My understanding of rental properties is that you want to optimize for low costs and low maintenance, low taxes, and maximum rental yield. Those are absolutely not the things I look for in a permanent home. They might happen accidentally, but generally not.
If your first home is a condo then it's not so hard.
When my wife got pregnant we were looking to move to a nicer condo. Rent was so high that an equivalent condo's mortgage payments were lower.
We had the down payment saved up so it was a no-brainer.