From there, I shifted my focus to scaling while recycling my capital.

I assumed that since I have to provide storage for recycling that I would also be responsible for curbing it.

Intel is a great example, who is building the largest chip manufacturing plant in the US right here, and it will be a $20 billion dollar investment that brings a few new thousand jobs.https://www.dispatch.com/story/business/2022/01/21/intel-ohio-building-computer-chip-factories-licking-county-jersey-township/9173472002/ Another example of economic growth is the upcoming Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Inpatient Hospital which is a 1.9million square foot hospital that will bring over 800 new beds and a thousand new jobs. https://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/new-osu-hospital-expected-to-transform-health-careHere are a few more recent investments https://www.10tv.com/article/money/business/hydrogen-power-company-hyperion-bringing-700-jobs-to-columbus/530-25907aab-5517-4661-a9f3-d2ed2d5be6b0 https://news.wosu.org/news/2022-02-08/rumpke-to-build-50-million-recycling-facility-in-columbus Check out The Complete Guide to the Columbus, Ohio Real Estate Market which goes through the Columbus, Ohio market in depth and will give you a better scope of where the highest levels of growth are taking place and where to look to invest.

As another poster mentioned, the best strategy would be to do a BRRR or use it to flip, so you can recycle $$.  

The funds are also happy to do this, because it recycles capital, allowing them to originate another loan.Buying notes directly or lending directly has it's own challenges, but I think could be a wiser approach for you for the first year or two.

What are other options to buy and hold while recycling my cash and not getting too deep on negative cash flow?

Recycling equity is how you scale in my opinion.

I would either move out and do another house hack or do some sort of value add project so you can recycle at least some of the money.

Our Midwest markets provide the opportunity to quickly recycle capital (even if a client can only afford to do 1 project at a time, they could still potentially do 3+ projects a year), and also allows our clients to benefit from multiple exit strategies (the house can be flipped as a turnkey, flipped to a retail buyer, or held as a personal rental for positive cash-flow).

For example, an investor I know had lien put on her property in San Francisco because the nightmare tenant didn't pay the last trash/recycle  and water bills before tenant moved out.