House hacking is an excellent strategy, especially with the potential to use an FHA loan to secure a property with a low down payment. 

Quote from @Jinxiang Xu: New to being a landlord, and already forked out $20k for foundation repair on this rental house.

No, I do not think that there will be a housing crash or a massive drop, nationwide, in rents and prices.

Showing houses 30 minutes at a time counts.

They will likely want you to do all the traditional lead gen steps: cold call, open houses, door knock, etc.

How big is the house?

I was playing with the idea of selling my condo, taking 300k of the equity to put a down payment towards a house listed at 660k.I'm assuming the reno will run $300/sqft and going in with the assumption that phase 1 will run 750k (figure the expansion of the house will have to wait) for the gut reno.I assume/hope (but definitely not banking on) that I will be able to refi in 2-3 years at a lower interest rate; if not for a lower rate.This will likely be a family home for the next 5-10 years at LEAST so investment value isn't quite at top of mind ATM.Questions:Even if it's not for lower interest rate, do you feel it's advisable to refi to remove the 203 loan in the future?

Only the house 5 down with the same sq ft is literally worth 100K more because the neighborhood actually changes in those 5 houses. 

People are not choosing the cheapest housing available.

It will be remote, but since you live there now, you probably already have connections who either already know the house or local friends to find you good people to service things as needed.