Once you feel comfortable in running your numbers, figure out a good market that has good population & economic growth and landlord friendly laws.

We could be very agressive on this and lower our tax liability.We might be romanticizing the real estate opportunity to fast track us to FIRE but we're looking at all these levers and trying to figure out what is the right one / right order to pull.

Eventually, I went into a steady state of paying the $200 monthly and gave up after logging in few leads and figuring out my state does not have reasonable deals at my level and given my financial status.

I have a couple lenders who say they could "figure it out", but it would require some grey area finagling like having the tenant sign a lease personally instead of the company.So the questions is, what do I do now.

For us, still in a growth mode, we take action and figure out how to redeploy that equity into other real estate through either cash-out refinancing or selling and 1031! 

You will probably figure out where you want to live here and then you can back into which areas make sense to house hack from there. 

You could have 2 properties that are identical on paper but have ARV's that are 6 figures apart for reasons that aren't apparent in the data.  

Quote from @Nithin Kumar: New to Phoenix and hearing a lot of places for rental investments but trying to figure out from the pro's around to find what are the areas that can break-even on a monthly basis and the areas that can show appreciation in the nearer term. planning to put down payment of 30% (~100k) Hi Nithin, I live in North Phoenix myself and would recommend anything around the Paradise Valley Mall area.

@Emily Fackler I figured those areas would be great at the moment.

I’m still learning myself, but I’ve found that connecting with other investors and figuring out which areas of the market to focus on (like distressed properties or foreclosures) can make all the difference.Are you currently looking to jump back into investing, or are you exploring different strategies at this point?