As you can imagine capital starts drying up quickly "trapping" 20% into each unit.

You have to be born to be a bookkeeper.

I was born and raised in Idaho and I would bet my life savings that 9 out of 10 people when faced with an incident where they need to act quickly and correctly with a gun and actually shoot at someone would either a.

I agree that the cost can be outrageous, and it may be worth it if they truly live up to their end of the deal with oversight, reviewing your deals, avoiding legal traps, yeah there’s a lot we don’t know starting out.

Many of my relatives have been born, lived and died in that house over the past couple centuries, and everyone who's been there that's sensitive to ghost activity has told us it's haunted.

You have to give up control, pay high junk fees front loaded, potentially have money trapped for a long period of time, etc.  

I was born in Hartford!

But you are falling right into the 1 percent rule trap of cities.

Born and raised Buffalonian,  contractor, real estate agent / flipper.   

If you are handy and can knock out work as you live there, great, but don't fall into a trap of buying something that needs a ton of work, unless you have the capital / money to fix it up post closing I got my first house-hack before I became a realtor.