@Jonathan Baptiste Have been house hacking before it was a thing, 29 years to be exact.

Use the two years to learn the area and I would suggest as soon as you can, find a duplex and start a house hack. 

I have a property that I could sell for somewhere around 400 K with owner financing.

Nothing attracts buyer leads like houses for sale.

A block can transition from appreciating to depreciating within ten houses so you have to learn where it is ebbing and flowing.

The contract was a simple 3 page one and I wrote this in.Also, it is a single family being rented as a rooming house (which is technically not legal here).

Your realtor will be able to give you a much more detailed market specific answer but with house hacking and a VA loan it should be possible to get 0 out of pocket.

They are going to have a pool, possibly hot tub, maybe a snack bar, and be beach front. at least comparing to the PCB market, most houses in comparable prices to condos dont have those things and are not beach front.

And better yet 80%+ of this asset class tenants are home owners by nature, divorcee's in process, there living standards are home-owner conditioned. 

The house is set way back at the end of a long winding driveway, the front is fully fenced for maximum privacy.