Plus different approaches versus one size fits all.   

I also want to be in a good spot for my commute to the hospital, so I’m focusing on areas north, east, or west of the city.Good to know about the 203k loan—I was hoping to do some of the work myself, so that might not be the best fit.

Take people's advice and also dont take people's advice, make a decision that best fits your situation. 

Start screening cities that fit that.4.

But it seemed to also be life coach  ,, health and fitness  ,  personal relationships etc etc. 

Figure out which best fits you and your personality and take it from there.  

So not really a one sized fits all approach which is the nice thing about real estate being able to cater it to yourself and your goals. 

Understanding your top priorities can help in determining whether Stessa, Baselane, or another tool might best fit your needs.If you're comfortable with apartments.co for rent collection but want higher yields on your cash (this is me reading between the lines) you could have the transfers go into a high yield business account like BlueVine 1.5% interest or something like CapitalOne 3.9%.

I have found that Redfin actually has pretty good search parameters to where you can look for listings that have been sitting a while that fit your buy box, and you can even do keyword searches for things like "as is", "investor", "seller financing", "guest house", etc. depending on what you are looking for.

I also didn’t deep dive into each listing as I wrote this and just simply found examples of photos I thought fit this and Airbnb did as well.