With a low 4.75% rate but minimal cash flow ($50–$125/month), your equity could likely work harder elsewhere.

Other introverts will feel comfortable with you and that could actually help your journey......more important qualities are honesty, integrity and being a harder worker than others.Just be yourself and go get started.

Cost to build is $350K (I am managing it all myself and calling in favors around the city to get low rates on materials and labor).

Ultimately it was the customer service and poor quality of my post cards that caused me to leave.

The problem is: A traditionally financed low-down payment house-hack with traditional long-term rents simply won't cash flow during occupancy, or after, in many MCOL-HCOL markets in the US. 95% leverage at even 5.7% just won't work in a lot of cases right now.

With a push to bring more manufacturing back to the U.S. and more employees returning to office work, there will be a greater need for mass transit solutions rather than building more roads lowering the quality of living if you want that SFH with a yard.

Nobody likes to work hard in the heat.The biggest concern in the past has been winter, but 2024 was the warmest year on record and we have seen +3F on average in every season, which really took the edge of winter (you can call it brown grass season now) while summers are pleasant 75-85F.The cost of living is low, yet the quality of live is relatively high.

It is harder to find good information if the forum is cluttered with low value information. 

An 80% occupancy rate indicates low demand. 

It certainly seems like it would have really low "yes" responses, but it only takes one.