@Colin Ford recommend getting experience with your RI duplex before going OOS.You should DIY manage the unit next door, so you LEARN about property management, the goog, the bad and the ugly.Then you'll be so much better prepared to invest OOS!

This strategy can be particularly effective for investors like yourself looking to manage and expand their holdings efficiently.

The same is true with property management.

Drunk guests would make me nervous.I also manage short term rentals, but don't do weddings.

I currently work for a property management company also located in the Midwest so please reach out if you have any questions!

If you don't have the relationships, hire someone who does.This is why Brian Burke can go “large corporate” while I have to stay “small private”; he has the ability to MANAGE PEOPLE that I do not.  

.- They can rent by the room and self-manage to produce day 1 cash flow.- Many of these HCOL areas also have strict limitations on AirBnB or short-term rentals... that do not apply to owner-occupants - thus allowing for extreme cashflow potential for house-hackers.

Do you have a property management company you use? 

I would like to speak with local investors, real estate agents, property managers, lenders, etc. from the area.

There isn't much I can add here except for the local expertise of the Boise area and our sister company property management team get these inquires often from tenants - so we have seen many ways how not to inquire about it and a few good ways haha.