You likely should have used 50% due to 50% rule which would half your COC.  

Last 2 years I gave away over half my income and I expect to do so again in 2024.  

@Brandon ClarkI am very sympathetic to CA investors wanting to invest in lower cost markets... but just to be very direct with you: -OOS is a LOT more challenging than advertised; and-50K is not a lot to start with.I genuinely think you will be more successful in a higher cost market that you can spend time in, rather than a random ,"lower cost" market thousands of miles away where you find something that looks nice on Zillow, spend your entire $50K on it... and then it needs a big rehab you weren't aware of, and you're negative $27K in year 1. 

Was recently in North Carolina, there are 100 counties and about half had had growth over the last census figures, and half have not had growth. 

I suggest you offer them to pay half the missing rent, and you eat the rest of it.

Why pass it to an Ai for a half-baked summary when everything it told you (Median & Avg data only) is available on RedFin, with real data, for free?

I've found from experience that a tile job 90 percent done is only half done.  

I also have to expand to more than just a 10 miles radius. 

If you do, then you're missing out on half the reason househacking is so powerful.

We just put an offer in on a riverfront one bedroom cottage on a half acre property in Oregon that we expect to be accepted, here's how I plan on purchasing the property with less than the cost of an apartment rental deposit in SoCal:Purchase price is $330k as a FHA Primary Purchase with 3.5% down ($11,550) and a 2.5% ($8250) seller concession towards closing costs.