The property is a 3/2, in a great family friendly area and very close to a commuter college.

Conduct thorough due diligence, including property inspections and financial analysis, to ensure it aligns with your investment goals.Property Management: Since you'll be living in one unit and renting out the other, familiarize yourself with basic property management practices.

This is a practice that has led to amazing results.

From what I gather, the capital appreciation is little to none.At the moment, I am getting a 7% return from dividend-paying US ETFs with practically little time and effort.Would you consider investing in condos in Thailand that don't show more than 10 to 12% ROI and I'm talking about ROI as rental income.

Most of these buyers are newly out of college so they might have friends that will be roommates.

I'm reaching out to see what best practices, behaviors, tools, etc. will help me find the right markets across the country for different investment strategies? 

I've hosted tens of people who I know had something go wrong during their stay, and they either don't leave a review or leave a review that simply says the host was super attentive and nice.Those are the highlights of best practices. 

Somebody from NJ posted this in a separate thread about 21 days ago and I meant this thread to be a one-stop place to gather information on good wholesaling practices, so I am going to link to the thread I took it from and copy the text below. https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/93/topics/1194082-5-tips-to-create-a-real-wholesaling-business-and-not-a-chop-shop?

Hello Mara HayesFor your situation, hiring a fee-only financial planner who charges by the hour would be a practical choice.

I am retired and working on career #2 and 2 of 3 of our kids have left for college - our oldest is headed to UConn for her PhD (6 years) and instead of paying to rent, our thoughts are to do a version of a house hack with buying a house/condo and renting out one to two rooms to offset the costs of her rent.