A and B neighborhoods typically don’t produce much cash flow and are more of an appreciation play—something the city has been seeing quite a bit of over the past decade.

Thus the more plants producing the more value.  

>I'd look to invest in small multi-family 2-4 units with a larger down payment ~50% or more (only way to produce positive cash flow here at the moment) I never understood why one would want to buy cash flow.  

Quote from @Anthony Sigala: We are all aware of the 1% rule--the gross rent produced by a property must equal 1% of the of the property's acquisition cost.

It will likely be a web of contractors, engineers, and architects, but some those are ultimately leading to the developer. 

Quote from @Greg Scott: LOL  Very creative.It could produce a windfall, or perhaps, massive IRS penalties.  

Anything and everything that you can do to show others (and prove to them) that you have a talent for selecting properties and producing actual results.If you do that, people will take notice. 

STRs generally produce more income than LTRs, but they are more work.

$400k equity is producing $1600/month cash flow for a return from the cash flow of 4.8%.  

Hard to produce cash flow or break even with that much debt, at that rate.House-hackers, however enjoy certain one time (non-scalable) advantages that should be taken advantage of in the early days: - They can assume pre-existing debt like VA and FHA Loans (rather than take it on Subject-To which is dramatically riskier).- They can rent by the room and self-manage to produce day 1 cash flow.- Many of these HCOL areas also have strict limitations on AirBnB or short-term rentals... that do not apply to owner-occupants - thus allowing for extreme cashflow potential for house-hackers.