It strongly touts no debt DSTs.

So even though you do your due diligence you sometimes don't get what you're looking for.

Do you and your husband have any kind of long term strategy in mind?

So - somewhere 2 hours away, or somewhere you like to vacation in, or where all your family lives, or where you plan to move someday.Too many people are trying to do exactly what you're doing - pick a market based on a formula - and they end up buying a random 'cheap' property thousands of miles away, turn it over to people they've never met or even spoken to, and then... lose money.  

I was wondering what your experience has been, good or bad with buying rental property in close proximity to the firehouse/station?

Thanks in advance for your insight!   

It can be great or horrible. 

A scope of work is easy to generate for a baseline then do add on’s to the scope you need customized for your exact preferences.

(But not for a “I’m going to live in it 50 weeks out of the year and rent it out two weeks”, IMHO, if that was your idea.  

With how much equity you have in your primary if it was me I would think about doing a cash out refinance for the whole thing as rates would be lower.