My wife and I have been surprised to see that we've been able to raise the rents on our MTRs much higher than we expected, but we had not counted on that to be profitable.

A relative of ours, and his wife had successful careers, invested over the years in real estate, accumulated plenty of properties which became mortgage free.

My goals with BiggerPockets is to learn about real estate investing and network, my wife and I would like to purchase our first house in the next 6 months.

I moved to the area with my wife in 2017 and haven't looked back.

It is a beautiful place I bought a few years ago and want to invest in the basement to then flip the building.

It was just under 400k.My wife always wanted a place in that area.

Always check flood maps and factor in flood insurance if needed.Historic Homes: Bay City has many beautiful historic homes.

-My wife and I were broke with our second house hack.

I am unable to attend and want to transfer my registration to a friend and his wife. 

My wife and I have been doing an MTR-exclusive startegy for 3.5 years, and we still have a hard time figuring out how to predict vacancy, especially in a new market that we're considering.If we look at FF's (pretty crummy) data on their website we either see very few listings, so we think "no one is investing here; bad" or we see a lot of listings and think "too much competition; bad".