It's beautiful...a dozen fishing cabins in Northern Minnesota on an entire peninsula of a lake surrounded by state forest land.  

We have also tried looking at places in Utah as there is a lot of beautiful land there, but initial looking online made it seem like the numbers just didn't make sense.

One was a former neighbor telling my wife about the house across the street from them.It is always good to cast as wide a net as possible, but I will give you a warning that many wholesalers, in my opinion, are also overpricing their properties.  

In December, my wife and I bought an old 1984 3/2 split level home with a walkout basement in a great area of Raleigh NC and spent the next 5 months renovating it, spending a little over $40k and pouring every ounce of energy and time we had into it.

My wife and I have never put more than 10% down on a house hack,  most of the time it is 5%.   

My wife had zero experience and transferred all of ours with no problems.3.

.: Check out beautiful Toledo Ohio.

can utilize the no income no doc DSCR loan which works beautifully and can take upto 80%  Really think we should stop using "no doc" to describe DSCR Loans - really isn't accurate and adds unneeded stigma around the loan product What types of "docs" do you require for a DSCR loan at easy street ?

I'm 35, with a wonderful wife and a big ol' Shepard mix named Brewski.

Markets that are desirable places to live (beautiful, good weather, affordable, less populated) have outpaced other markets in recent years.