If you have a 2 year work history, and go get a W2 job tomorrow, we could use your base pay right away (as long as it is "guaranteed hours" or considered "full time". 

Run the numbers you may do better long term or renting as a whole unit.

I personally like the buy-and-hold strategy and we help clients who share this long-term, wealth building mindset. 

If appreciation and scalability are your long-term goals, consider house hacking or saving for a bigger market later.

The only thing that changes is how many tenants theyre are, And how long the remaining lease is so you can rewrite the lease term for that amount of time.

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Understand your short term and long term goals.

I am considering getting into this space (looking at some courses), but worried that its too late, and that deep local market knowledge/understanding of buyers/connection with developers etc is required to make this work, which only incumbent/long term investors will have and would be hard for a new entrant starting from scratch to catch-up...is my hypothesis valid in your opinion ?

As Columbus cements its reputation as a tech hub, the ongoing and planned investments by major tech firms are likely to ensure long-term growth in the local real estate market.

If that's the case, you'll want to start with a fix and flip (or hold) type of loan, complete your renovations, get it rented out and THEN refinance into a DSCR loan for a long term hold.