.~60% of the market uses HM, surfacing ~40% of cash heavy investors.

You could spend all day, every day for the next 5 years going through all the blogs, posts, videos, webinars and podcasts; and still only scratch the surface.

Seems on the surface to be good just from the standpoint I’ll have no down payment / can deploy my capital elsewhere.

Your property management team will know rent prices, rent turn over, average time to get a tenant in the door, deal with background checks and monthly payments, ensure the house is maintained by the tennant and deal with any other surface level issues that may arise. 

These are smaller units, but the finish is hard surface counter (quartz), PTAC (notice the ugly cord that should have been hardwired) LVT in the kitchen- (we would have done all LVT if we were keeping this)  We were only zoned for 17 units so the 18th unit was set for self storage units for extra income.  

I think your list is a great place to start and everything you listed sounds decent.I would say, for the wood paneling, make sure there's actually a good surface below it before you start on that.

I could definitely be wrong there.Just some surface-level thoughts, but I think the MarketWatch journalists just took recent housing data affected by COVID and slapped it into a blog post for easy internet traffic.

That seems a little far fetched on the surface. 

@Jaysen Medhurst that is the reasonable explaination on the surface, but that's the part I don't buy.

I don't currently have a property in mind I just want to be ready as I believe there will be some good deals starting to surface.