I am seeing a ton of activitiy in PG, AA, Howard, Balt, and southern MD as well. 

I’m going to search PG County tenant laws tomorrow.

I found a 4 bed, 2.5 bath house in PG County, MD that I could house hack.

What I’m realizing is that there isn’t a plethora of multifamily properties in the Northern Va area, the ones in DC are either way too expensive or in SE, and NE and I’m not too familiar with which areas are good to buy, they’re in PG which I’ve heard isn’t really developing all that well and isn’t as good a buy as Montgomery Country, or they’re too far out in Montgomery Country that I worry about finding renters.I’ve got searches on the MLS setup to send me any multis in the DMV so I’m looking but I just want to know of there are any people in the area that can give me some advice.

Cigar Snob - July/August issue pg. 53It was a good read, check it out.

Specifically, I've been browsing opportunities in Fort Washington, MD (in PG county near MGM and national harbor) and Baltimore, MD (brooklyn).

I've put together a spreadsheet of every property currently available on the MLS for PG county along with it's estimated rent (from zillow), taxes (from SDAT), and then the calculated expenses, income, net cash flow, and cap rate.

I was reading The book on Managing Rental Properties by Brandon and Heather Tuner and they stated (pg 181) that a resident manager is required for building of 9+ units in New York.

Thank you Hi Mary this is a different topic thread but Fannie used to count all properties in entities as "financed properties," as long as you owned more than 25% in that entity as documented by your annual K1 form which your LP/LLC/Scorp/flow through entity will show your ownership percentage.This meant that even if the mortgage note was in the LLC's name and the title was in the LLC's name you'd still be hit with these properties as financed properties as long as you owned more than 25% of the company/entity.Fannie has evolved their language on how they count financed properties in late 2017.Now their emphasis is on you being "personally obligated," on the note or basically if you're personally obligated on the note/mortgage/paper instrument.A real life experience or example is that most local credit unions or community banks that use the same loan origination software  will make you sign make you sign the mortgage note as a manager of your LLC however the personal guarantee (PG) is a separate document.

I would have a lawyer draw up your actual note & pg but that should only help you attract more family + friends to lend to you.