Also, focus on 2 years of job/income stability.Class D Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, all cashflow with little, maybe even negative, relative rent & value appreciationVacancy Est: 20%+ should be used to cover nonpayment, evictions & damages.Tenant Pool: majority will have FICO scores under 560 (almost 30% probability of default), little to no good tradelines, lots of collections & chargeoffs, recent evictions.

I would focus on getting a solid job/career then going into a house hack. 

Also, focus on 2 years of job/income stability.Class D Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, all cashflow with little, maybe even negative, relative rent & value appreciationVacancy Est: 20%+ should be used to cover nonpayment, evictions & damages.Tenant Pool: majority will have FICO scores under 560 (almost 30% probability of default), little to no good tradelines, lots of collections & chargeoffs, recent evictions.

I currently own a few properties here in Bryan-College Station, I have a full time sales job so try to stay as passive as possible. 

It is just a job, not RE investing.Save up and buy your own place to Truley create wealth and not just make an actual owner money.

They do a good job of regularly releasing episodes and they frequently talk about starting out with their initial capital pool and growing their business. 

Owning real estate can be a full time job at times.

Property Managers want to make their lease up job as easy as possible and bringing a property up to like new condition is one way of doing that.

If that's the case, check out some of the economic data about what cities have strong job and population growth.

If you don't, you should get to it and be there now, that's your job as  landlord.