Most of the homes come with a one or two year warranty so we set it up so that they can communicate with the builder directly to handle maintenance issues.- Taxes are usually much lower the first year. 

Hey Diego, I started wholesaling a long time ago by doing direct mail marketing and had decent success doing that.

@Elisha Johnston contact RL Property Management about the Columbus market.Contact @James Wise about Cleveland.A good/great PMC will know more about the rental market than the majority of agents!

Specifically, I’m interested in house hacking as a way to begin practicing real estate after I graduate from college.Can anyone share some learning directions, tips, or experiences?

Every contact I needed for insurance, mortgage and cleaners were done online, mostly through connections from BP. 

Another key point in loans is that the broker or direct lender will often try and include the costs into the loan, for some this is fine but you are paying interest on that money over a long period of time....FYI

Feel free to contact me via PM and I can provide you more info if you have further interest, as these discussion boards are not for selling!

Feel free to connect with me and I will share their contact info. 

Normally the manager works directly for you rather than another company.

First, this is a question that your property manager should be able to answer and honestly shouldn't have even needed to contact you about.