Brandon Turner's two books: The Book on Rental Property Investing and The Book on Managing Rental Properties. 

. - The ultimate house hack, live in the small ADU unit and rent out the two levels of the main house on AirBnb in San Francisco (I would have thought STRs are oversaturated in S.F. but it worked for them and they stay fully booked).

A hole or two (check how many you need.) and some plastic pipe?

Funny how she managed two 10 day plus oversea vacations per year for the past 8 years.  

Time, Quality, or Price- you get two out of the three.

Are the closing costs on both of these two high?

It's a breeze, I logged a whole year and printed off reports for my tax accountant in about two hours.

Sounds like a good plan, should have plenty of options available.I would be cognizant of any group you talk with on two areas, the location of the property including any potential concerns of it being 'rural', as well as the minimum purchase price and/or minimum loan amounts.

I understand there are some protections that go along with it with all the law suits going around but hardly doubt they would go after an office with two agents in it.

But keep in mind that there might be some delays in getting payments started, particularly in the first month or two as inspections are completed and paperwork is processed.