In many places wholesalers are largely unregulated unlike a real estate agent.

House hacking is the BEST way to get into real estate investing and that's how I personally got started as well too.

Jonathan Having worked most of those markets (Detroit included), I'd say most all of them will offer investors a very similar return.

My partner and I have ~20 doors in Columbus OH, and we are interested to expand our portfolio to Cleveland, including around Lorain and Euclid.

We ran it past our real estate agent and lender — but I'm all for shoring up.

But if I sold today I likely would lose atleast 10k.Would it be feasible to just relocate for the job and rent the house for the time being and see what happens?

Our key amenity highlights include an easy to use gas fire pit and Seattle Mariners themed corn hole.

Sold it, setting a new price record for the street at the time.

Was something mitigating the noise at that time that you could use now?

This is why its difficult if not impossible to sell a STR for any more than property value - the market perceives that the additional profitability of a STR doesn't belong to the STR operator - it belongs to the App platform.If you can migrate to "independence", i.e. self generated business, then not only will you have a long term sustainable business, but a good chance to sell the STR for a substantial premium to real property value.