House hacking in California with 100K budget in a more undesirable area maybe your best bet if you decided to invest in California.

You have a mortgage (undesirable for an attorney to sue when bank owns most of the property)3.

I like to do 2 year lease for houses but they will be giving me 6- 9 months (Ive been getting a lot of undesirable applicants lately, feel like in 6 months Id have better tenants) I have read some reviews online theres a lot of bad ones mostly from the displaced people; I wanted to know if any renters have worked with them and their experiences.

I know the city of Jamestown intimately, and can give you a broad outlook of the neighborhood that your propery is in, it is a small city, with low income, and many undesirable people, there are drug problems, and lack of good paying jobs.

If you're worried about appreciation I would be very picky about buying in proximity to something that make it a desired location, and I would not buy in a peripheral market where new construction is essentially only limited by the cost of construction.

one of the other reasons there is a housing shortgage and those that live in the mid west rust belt older cities of the US can confirm this. you have demographic shifts that lead neighborhoods undesirable to those that want to owner occ a home..

It's a blessing that you're getting an undesirable tenant out of there.

We do a quick eight question screening that weeds out most undesirables and people who don't meet our minimum criteria. (5-10 minutes) If they pass that, then we follow-up with a pre-qualification interview of about 20 questions. (15 - 30 minutes) If they pass that, then we show the property.At the start of the interview, I ask for the full legal name of all adults who will be residing at the place.

But a house we have in an undesirable-for-Airbnb location appreciated about 10% over the 2015-2017 time period and 50% from 2020 until the market turned.  

Nevertheless, if you buy in the wrong area, you can end up with very undesirable tenants in Racine.