Quote from @Tar-U-Way Bright: Hello Everyone,I'm preparing to purchase my first investment property in the new year, which I plan to house hack.

To communicate that a candidate doesn’t meet your qualifications without violating fair housing rules, you can simply focus on the criteria rather than the individual.

All have existing houses on.

The homeowner has direct title, can sell at any time and gets 100% of the appreciation and tax benefits on these houses.

You house/property will not sell for as much due to that..

If your goal is to offset your mortgage with a house hack then Lowell would be a good bet, but if you're looking for a longer term appreciation play then the areas closer to the city would be better, although the offset from cashflow may be lower than what you're looking for.A good step for you would be to dig into specific areas more as @Lien Vuong noted above.

My point being, having a reliable team here is a must.Dialing in on what class neighborhood and what kind of property you want is as key as your metrics, especially given that much of our housing stock is ~125 years old --- at least in the city.

When I look back real estate investing and rehabbing houses is akin to games I enjoyed playing as a child.

Unkempt lawns, trashy or broken down vehicles, mattresses and trash on empty lots, boarded up houses, bars on windows, dealers and hookers on the corners, the lack of stores or gas stations, occupied properties are dilapidated, etc.Or when Google maps shows stuff like this:

I would like to rent my house  to a Group Home.