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Ohio markets show up 3 times in Zillow’s 2024 hottest markets, with Columbus and Cincinnati taking the top 2 and 3 spots.

Make a reasonable offer on the spot.

It'll be back, Austin is one of the sore spots in the most explosive housing era we've seen.

Offer contracts generally have language in them already that incorporates this stuff (or at least they have blank spots for your agent to fill in these requests), you should be able to talk to your agent if you have any questions about how this all works in your area.

You are certainly in the right spot to get started House Hacking.

Instead of explaining that they haven't planned the work out to that level of detail yet and getting back to you with answers they don't want to admit they can't answer on the spot and respond with frustration because they don't know how to handle the situation and are emotionally immature.

I'll need to make some renovations like finish my basement so I can make use of that as well and move laundry to a more central and convenient spot so it can be shared.

This seems like a costly fix, as well as a rental safety concern- The basement leaks, the basement is below ground and built into a hill, and there is always stagnant water in certain spots of the basement floor regardless of amount of rain, which only makes it worse.

Birmingham MSA has some spots where you can win but if you have to know that market well to win.