So if you buy a 5 bedroom house and rent the spare 4 bedrooms = you can still sell tax-free under the 121 (you just pay back depreciation) If you buy a duplex and rent 1/2 and live in 1/2.

Focus will be your superpower - figure out which strategy you like best and double down on that! 

Where are the three bedrooms?

As a cross-border investor, I'm likely going to need advice on entity structure to protect my liability while also not being double-taxed, I'm going to need to network with experienced investors/property managers/agents in the Cleveland area.

Great opportunities to buy single family house and rent out the bedrooms.  

It’s a newly renovated 3-bedroom, 2-bathroom home, just one block from the ski slopes and four blocks from downtown.The current owner has been renting it out for $30,000 per month during the peak winter and summer seasons.

Even if you only averaged 2.8% appreciation annually, which if you've had it 20 years I have no clue how that's true given prices have well more than doubled in that time, youre skipping over the fact that you have been benefiting from that appreciation on the ENTIRE house, not just the % you paid for.  

Need double the workers.

The county the property is located in requires 250 gallons of capacity for every bedroom, so 2x 2 bedrooms would have to be on a 1000 gallon tank.

These are luxury duplexes consisting of 3 bedrooms and 2 car garage units.