My family made theirs in real estate (house hacking a private money funded 4 family when I was little) so two different philosophies.

Appreciate any advice at all.Things to note: I have a well qualified plumber tenant for the bigger under house garage already.

I have to clean your house?

Also if you are selling, hopefully your agent has advised you but good practice to have a vacant unit to open the buyer pool to owner-occupied buyers/house hackers.

And IMHO, the prices are dropping big time (on avg. 10K/month...houses that were above 300K a year ago are not selling at 250K now) and the available rentals saturation is worse than I seen during summer season (with rents dropping from 1$-1.08/sqft to 0.8$/sqft and very little contacts and applications...just go in Zillow and look how many rentals are on the market now in Kyle, New Braunfels or Converse). 

The reason to have comparables is if you are representing someone or perhaps purchasing a house for yourself to live in.

I have five houses in Memphis area, and the biggest problem has been finding a good property management company. 

Once you land on the right PM, transition everything to them.As others have stated, four houses is not a big task.

Hello All,We are building  a house for sale and need to decide on the kitchen layout.

I think this will even out your space in the house.