If you plan to stay in your current city or state for the foreseeable future, to establish roots, start a family, my recommendation is to buy a house.

I have already talked to CPAs/lawyers and made a plan with how I will be structuring the investments as far as LLCs and Corporations and LLCs owned by corporations and all that legal tax mumbo jumbo (which is extremely important asset protection and tax mumbo jumo but not the root of my question).My question has to do with the day to day managing of incoming rental income.

Paying for a sewer line scope is probably worth the cost to make sure the sewer line (a costly fix) is still in good condition and free of tree roots.

If so, it is possibly tree roots in the sewer line.

Net root issue was low market confidence and a supply of housing inventory that had excessive deferred maintenance.  

Rooting for you.

I want to lock in my housing expense, avoid the uncertainty/instability of renting (landlord is selling the house I live in) and put down roots in the ever-increasing expensive city that I love and want to live in for years to come. 

Lots of great local groups around, each with pros and cons:TRIG: meetups (zoom) once/month, paid membership, tons of local rooted investorshttps://www.trigofva.com/Hampton Roads Investor Group: Free, hosted by investor agents at 1st Class Real Estatehttps://www.facebook.com/group...Hampton Roads Landlord Associtaionhttps://www.meetup.com/HRLandl...

I have some roots sprouted with different people throughout SA but I’m always trying to learn more.

Sadly rooted in my generation (millenials).