Should match many different styles. 

I will continue to tweak my plans and eventually find a nice niche that fits my investing style.   

If you are willing to sacrifice part of your life style, you can always consider living one room/unit of the house and rent out the other vacant unit out to lower your monthly mortgage payments!

With room to enhance its value through upgrades, we saw the opportunity to deliver a strong return while helping revitalize the neighborhood.

I know a lot of investors from the west coast in California and Seattle, WA are investing in the midwest due to the strong cashflow and appreciation.  

My suggestion is to look for someone with a strong track record in investment properties, ideally someone who has successful investments themselves.

Trying to get a genuine perspective from someone that has strongly considered using one or actually used one.

You *could* bill proportionately in more of a RUBS style with out meters.

I understand equity and cash-flow are related, but what I mean is that I don't need the cash flow right now as much as I'd like to build a strong portfolio that can cash flow even more later on.I've owned a single-family rental for 4 years, but on mulitple fronts I felt like I've done a poor job self-managing it, so this Fall I picked up the Turners' book on managing rentals and that's what led me here to Bigger Pockets online.

I would strongly suggest considering leaning into the niche of traveling nurses.