Over the years, I've gained extensive experience with STRs, navigating regulations, building teams remotely in various markets and countries, and testing nearly every piece of relevant software.

I'm currently a wholesaler and I've accumulated a significant number of direct-to-seller listing leads in many cities across the country.

If I’m lucky, I can score a remote role and move to an affordable market elsewhere to jumpstart my FI progress, but if not, I can still buy a house with a lower salary in any of these affordable markets around the country!

An important piece of info I left out is I currently live out of the country so house hacking is not a possibility, although I think it is a great idea.

@Edison Reis the Eastern Panhandle near Berkeley Springs is hot right now with overflow from Northern Virginia. 

I love the idea of an STR but with University of Michigan and Eastern Michigan it seems as if a student MTR would be a great option.

In 2022 the rents increased 12.1% year over year which was the 3rd highest in the entire country per https://www.axios.com/local/cleveland/2023/02/14/cleveland-rent-prices.

Cause with 50k, not every market in this country is open to you. 

Not just in Colorado, but likely across the country.  

Through experience, and depending on the municipality, you will learn to determine what you will need to pull permits and what work you can get away with without permits. also for us that understand how it work :quality permitted work = quality of unpermitted worksubcons are happier doing more unpermitted work because they got more moneythe lesser number of generalist in fixing home, the cheaper the project would be , no need to rush a project.when specialist is needed, that's usually needed in more 'advance' case (like removing the entire plumbing).so in reality , permitted work is just giving more commision dollar the gov and to the GC (that actually only inspecting the work and may design the work, but not really do the actual project) , so easy project unless it's an addition, getting permitted work almost doesn't make sense especially in the country where local gov does not care about it so much.