So you may actually be able to make more money with much less effort if you did convert this to a long term rental.I am very active in the market here in helping people from out of state buy and sell condos.

VRBO is having a bit of a glitch right now and loses connection at times.  

Feel free to share more about what you’re working on—I’d love to connect and collaborate.Wishing you a productive week ahead! 

Try to find people who are where you want to be and then just copy them, what do/did they do to get there and do the same thing. 

Knowing with the FHA loan might go that route but wondering what other people would do.

Speaking from personal experience.Fine to say it’s not your personal cup of tea, but no need to scare people off with talk of serial killers.

Quote from @Drew Sygit: It's like first responders: people don't really care about what they do until they need them. 

However, I haven’t found many examples of people doing this in that area.

The vast majority of your wealth gain in real estate will be by holding properties long term and the appreciation/principal paydown will slowly but surely help you become wealthy.For 90% plus of people out there who are looking to start, house hacking is the best way to go.

I am considering getting into this space (looking at some courses), but worried that its too late, and that deep local market knowledge/understanding of buyers/connection with developers etc is required to make this work, which only incumbent/long term investors will have and would be hard for a new entrant starting from scratch to catch-up...is my hypothesis valid in your opinion ?