I live in the greater Maryland  area.

@Andrew Katz, if you will be living in your next house hack, you should investigate a conventional loan instead of hard money.

This has been my experience and I live in an ultra-competitive market.

I sometimes wonder if people just feel lazy dumping their money into an index fund in the stock market and actually using all that free time to go out and live life.

You can live in one unit and rent out the other three.

I buy homes as a primary residence with 5% down and move into them keeping my previous as a rental and the area that I live doesn't have new builds that would work for us, otherwise I would buy a new build. 

I am a wholesaler, I live in Memphis but do most of my work in Nashville as a primary market and Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Arizona and anywhere else I can find a deal from networking for multifamily and land.

I live in El Paso, TX and would like to invest close to home first before venturing in long-distance.

@Felicia Vinces it sounds like you missed our Year End Live show and Podcast of "Real Estate Notes Show' where 2 15 year experience note investors break down what makes a note valuable.  

Where do you live, and where are your units?