Not an easy thing, but saving 20% or more on the cost of a new home seems well worth the time and effort if you ask me.

You can offset other passive income of gains with depreciation from your long-term rental.  

Quote from @Urvesh Patel: HelloI am new to Cleveland and I am thinking to diversify my real estate portfolio by testing out medium term strategy for the travel nurses in Cleveland around Cleveland Clinic. 

If you're looking to get into STRs, you need @Avery Carl's book, Short Term Rental, Long Term Wealth, published by BP. 

I’d offer to sign the form if I was allowed to cross out everything between brokerage firm and during the terms.

Short term rentals are legal when the host is living in the same apartment as the guests and there are no more than 2 guests staying with the host."

If you can find a fixer at a good price, with room for an ADU, and the comps are good, then you have a deal.Are you planning on flipping or long-term holds?

If you plan to live there in the winters, you might have a hard time doing long term rental outside of that and finding a new tenant every summer.

i wish i had better news for you but it's probably not feasible in the short term to replace your W2 income with rental income. 

Lancaster city limits short term rentals to only certain zones of the city so definitely look at the city website for that information.