I am a big fan of the Cincy market, and I have seen a bit of movement there recently form investors. 

Yes these scammer requests are coming pretty frequently for us.

I am personally not a fan of single family house hacks, but if that's all you got available in the area where you want to be and at the price point you can afford, then you have to go with that. 

I’m also not a fan of having any properties paid off because of the Return of Equity factor. 

Although it's not a strict rule, this can serve as a useful guide.A frequent goal for house hacking is to have the rental revenue from the extra units completely cover your mortgage payment.

I travel very frequently between York PA and Philadelphia. 

I used to post in FB traveling nurse groups but found that the thrifty shoppers frequented there.

NOT before, IRS isn’t a fan of that. 

Every system you try will have flaws, or you may salivate over a feature that appears in other software.Some familiar names are mentioned frequently: Stessa, Apartments.com, RentRedi, TenantCloud, Innago, RentManager, Avail, Rentec Direct, Doorloop, etc.I recommend conducting thorough research on each app online to understand their offerings, pricing, etc.

@Andrea LauritzenI start off investing out of state in KC and I'm a huge fan.