But the two main cities I would avoid in Akron is Firestone park, Elizabeth Park, and Cascade Valley. 

My main goal is to find a solid rental market with good cash flow and long-term appreciation potential.Any insights, personal experiences, or key factors I should consider when choosing a market would be really helpful.

My main focus is multi-family house hacking, but I’m open to other strategies as well.I’ve always had a passion for real estate and decided to move to a market with strong rental potential and affordability.

Quote from @Gregory Wilson: Natalie, I don't usually want to debate what are usually opinions, but this needs some correction.First, as stated above, tax audit issues are about 7th on the list of reasons to have every rental property in an LLC.

If appreciation is part of your long-term wealth-building strategy, holding onto this asset could be wise.That said, if your main goal is to aggressively pay down your primary residence mortgage, selling could make sense.

The reason I asked about the amount is I see people always searching for the "perfect note" when they had 100 opportunities pass right by and spend thousands to buy 5 loans a year which they could have done little work and still found similar loansWe buy non performing to get them reperforming and we also have some shorter term RTL's (performing) for cash flow purposes.

My wife and I moved to main house and rent the guest house as STR What made you interested in investing in this type of deal?

I can see an explicit exception in CA Tax Code § 17561 that says you can not use the qualifications in Section 469(c)(7) (Real estate professional) to render that income as non-passive, but I see no callout for 1.469-1T and, as such - as a non-CPA - I do not (yet) see a reason why we cannot follow the same rules for CA that we do for our federal taxes; e.g., if the business is not a "rental" business per tax code, we count that income as non-passive and offset other income (W2, etc) similarly.Does anybody else have some guidance (or opinions) on this matter?

Quote from @Bruce Yi: @Gustavo Delgado what's a reasonable additional deposit? 

You should take a break from buying if the deals don't match your buy box, you are out of money, or for several other reasons (partner isn't on board, over-leveraged on different properties, acting out of FOMO, etc.).