I’ve been a serial house hacker in the greater Boston area so happy to connect and share some lessons learned.Multifams inventories are quite low depending on your budget and location preferences.  

I've never really done a deep dive in analyzing the area because it is a retirement community, median income is very low, and there arent a lot of jobs in the area.

I would assume the % of man made fires caused by Arson is pretty darn low though.

Looking for a house we could house hack, had an incredibly low interest rate on mortgage and house has increased in value about 42%, an estimated 180k in equity.

Consider a HELOC for value-added BRRRRs or flips if you have a low interest rate.

However, I like that there isn't a lot of work to do and I could still make the property really cute with not much risk.Inventory is so low.

We are looking for low maintenance (so primarily new construction or >2000 and well maintained/rennovated) single family homes.

cash flow has just been hit hard everywhere with the rise in interest rates. the properties in my portfolio that cash flow the most are at interest rates that it's not possible to get anymore - low 4s - and somehow there is still tremendous demand for properties that won't cash flow or break even, which is what you're finding.based on what you've said about your current situation... i don't have a good answer for you. 

I had a tenant force me to pay for some dumb azz air quality test where she claimed my air was bad and making her sick. 

Not the case.Just like everything else, there are always different quality of Section 8 tenants.