One thing that’s jumping out to me is how your House 3 has some serious potential once you carve out that above-garage apartment.

When you say your house hack phase has passed, are you saying you DON'T plan to occupy a unit of the 4-plex?

From what I've seen, Jacksonville has attractive housing prices and rental rates.

The house was spacious enough for her, but not for accommodating other relatives who might want to live with her.

As others have said, the settlement that was reached in 2024 requires this contract for an agent to show you a house. 

Read some books, preferably those written prior to 2015 when YouTube gurus started telling everyone how easy it is to buy 17 houses a year with no money down.Investing is pretty simple if you just follow the process investors were using since the beginning of time.

In order to do what I have envisioned, the house must go.

One house, vacant for a good part of the year.

Indeed, to stay in compliance with fair housing, you need to treat each tenant the same, so that's something to keep in mind. 

Yes, I'm gonna bang the REI gong LOUD-N-PROUD because your on BP, this is our house bro, the house REI built.