House hacking is a great way to get started! 

In our reviews our lake, pool, size of our house and location relative to everything else gets the most mentions.

Lakeland, McAllen and Memphis are all in the top 11 https://www.fastcompany.com/91250321/housing-markets-59-citi...

Where you planning to house hack? 

Thank you so much for the praise as this hypes me up for my next purchase this year as a 20-year-old using my first brrrr and funds from my house hack HELOC to fund it!!!!

I’m still new to all this and my goal is to eventually move out of this condo, rent it out, and get a new house and rinse and repeat for a bit.

You'll be selling a house that is worth what comps say it is worth. 

As those prices fluctuate, there is a builders somewhere putting his feet up waiting to see a market turn more active because the last thing he wants to do is start paying crews to build houses, that could drop in value while he's halfway through the build process and losing equity halfway into the project.

I wish I could go back and have all my loans with my local credit union who keeps them in-house to avoid all this. 

However, if you're a W2 high income earner or business owner, I can't imagine it makes any sense to flip houses, mail mass post cards, wholesale, or build lead gen websites with the value of your time being better spent other places (such as learning about real estate and increasing your income through proven means), such as at your 9-5pm or growing your business, and your real estate is a long term process and you don't need "home run" deals to qualify or make it work.