With a dynamic real estate market, diverse neighborhoods, and high rental demand, Chicago is a fantastic place to invest in house hacking. 

Like mentioned above, Local facebook groups are a good start.

Seems like a small company that is growing, so customer service is really good.

Through the 1st half of February there were exactly 9 more units of inventory than in Feb 2024.And in Today's NewsKash Patel Gets to Work – Immediately Moves 1,500 Agents from HeadquartersBuilding, 500 FBI Agents Moved to AlabamaMay be a good time to be selling in Alabama. 

Best of luck there, it's a great town with good people.

The rate will also be high. 

Build - rent - refinance -repeat. in columbus ohio you are buying old houses that are 1900 or 1920 or 1940 and you are in a sellers market. on the other hand you can source land which is a buyers market and build single family homes or duplex or triplexes that will return by renting and pulling cash out on a DSCR loan and doing it again. there aren't a lot of strategies that do this. flipping is different. so many risks. but when someone has a well oiled machine it's all good and less risk.

There have been some very good spreadsheets posted on here in the past that you can search for and find.A spreadsheet is going to be much easier to use and play with different numbers than an app.

Since then I’ve been leveraging my way to generational wealth with “good debt.”

As long as the 'ratio' is a 1.00 or greater, aka breaking even or positively cash-flowing, you can get that loan.These are 30-year fixed loans for investment properties and do not require your personal income, taxes, or debts be taken into consideration.Here's a good BP article explaining how you can use these:https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/questions-and-answers-abo...