Consider your investment strategy—house hacking, turnkey rentals, or real estate syndications—and start networking through local meetups or BiggerPockets forums.

In other words, I can afford the house with or without tenants. 

I just don't want to run into any problems with the lender when I am about to close on the house.

I'm curious of the current market demand for student housing and appeal to rental investors.

Buying a large new build home can also work well as a house hack as you can charge a premium rent, and generally most bedrooms built now a days have en suites (at least in my market).  

There is a single family home that was divided and one half has been rented and an ad on small "house" that has also been rented mostly long term.

The buyer of course believing he had purchased the house paid a visit to the tenant, who of course called me.  

This comes from a 2017 City document, but it seems to be current.http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca1/groups/ceda/documents/report/oak050966.pdfA real pity, with the severe lack of housing in Oakland. 

I think some folks search for discounts so that's a way for being promoted.Seems guest dont rent a 4 bedroom house unless they have triple the amount of guests they originally reserved for.  

I am not preticuarly brand new to real estate as I've done 1 house flip before and 1 brrrr here locally to me.To begin, I’m aiming to tackle two single-family BRRRR projects in the Jackson County, MO area.