Not one single strategy will work for every property. 

Over the years, he acquired more homes, duplexes, and even a small apartment complex.But despite his growing success, Michael had one fatal flaw—he couldn’t let go.The Burden of ControlMichael was everywhere.

In SC, you can only be employed by one regulated lender at a time per the state, and they seemed to think this was related.

I think too many people move on to property number two and three before property number one is really in good shape and later they regret it.

With on market deals like this, there are two scenarios: 1) you see something that no one else sees OR 2) everyone else sees something you don't

Can you please provide the names of those that will do one?

Focus on absentee owners and start with the ones who live the farthest away and only own one property in the area since they have the least use for the property.You can also drive for dollars, looking for anomalies of disrepair and then look them up in the tax records and use a site like Spokeo to do cheap skip tracing.

In my opinion the best way to house hack is to purchase a multifamily where you can live in one unit while renting out the rest.

Quote from @Mike Hansen: When out of state investing, how does one go about appealing their tax assessment?

I can think of one instance where this was applied.