The slowdown allows more time for due diligence, property acquisition, and long-term planning.

On paper we were slightly in the red but much of that is due to one-year expenses/repairs & allowable transportation costs to get up to the property for work days ourselves. 

Some people may think it is those with below market rents but i question if this is true as these tenants will now get max allowed rent increases Would they have gotten such large rent increases in the absence of rent control.

Likely they will only allow you to live in the property once you refinance out of the debt due to rules and regulations, but you can always ask! 

We’d love to connect with like-minded individuals and seasoned investors to learn from their experiences.5.

What documents do they require, what credit scores do they allow, how do they verify previous rental history, etc.?

This will allow you separate business income and expenses from personal income and expenses.Since you plan to house hack your bookkeeping and tax return preparation will be more complicated because a percentage of your home expenses will be personal deductions and some will be business deductions.

There is a "sponsor exemption" but that only allows an unlicensed person to raise money but it cannot be more than 50% of their duties and the pay they receive cannot be based on how much they raised.If you have never raised $, a family office will be off the table as they typically want the company to ahve atleast $50-$100M in assets. 

But he chose that one over the others because it was very user friendly (for our older managers) and it offered a 'Groups' function where we could add certain individuals to different projects.

I’m so happy to be here and would love to connect with like minded individuals 😁Welcome!