You can collect applications and then choose the "most qualified" applicant, but that's opening the door to Fair Housing complaints.

What kills me are the mailings I get from investors offering to buy my house for a "fair price."  

You can just look for houses you like and run the numbers rather than focusing on small areas.As far as AirBnB, our market is fairly saturated so you really have to operate at a high level to stand out and/or have a really excellent location. 

I’m looking to house hack my first property and walked through a couple of properties that have a fair amount of square footage but only 3 bedrooms.

I am not an engineer, so please consult with an engineer or licensed GC in your area before proceeding, but this should be a fairly minor change that should be completed in under 1 day.

In all fairness though we are conservative and I personally go visit the market ( at my expense) and the individual we are going to work with before I start the program..

I have been doing fairly well, taking in consideration the little time I'm on it, but it's a lot of work.

Since you’re buying at fair market value, there’s no room for margin.

Rates are starting to drop fairly fast and for primary homes they are already down 1.25% from earlier this year. 

I have a fairly extensive summary of GA tax sales process in my notes file — I’ll send to you later if you want it… but I found it in this forum if you want it sooner