Conversely, my wife is very hesitant to join me on my real estate journey ever since she saw news about squatters.

. - I never, ever heard of 10% of the renovation funds due at closing and I've closed 100s of bridge loans with many different lenders.I think there's way, way better terms out there but I do not know your credit, if it is good these terms are way off.

It's the biggest financial decision you'll ever make. 

We usually had around 3 other people renting for us and sold the house a few years later as the largest sell price in that neighborhood to that date.

The university areas work well with college students needing places.If you ever want to talk REI let me know looking at some options in Chicago this week and Indiana.

The largest city on the Coast, Coos Bay/North Bend combine for a population of less than 25k.

I'm really just curious if you can ever go wrong with house-hacking. 

Hi Steve,Have you ever thought about a Japanese Shoji as a solution.You could mix that with some Feng Shui for an Asia Decorating theme.Steven Seagal would probably love it.Good Luck!

Turnover is an investors largest expense so we normally raise it under market rents to try and keep them.

There were a few slight distractions like figuring out financing, selling a neighboring lot (that I had also acquired via letter writing) on Craigslist, rent out my RV, rent out my house, make my first ever documentary film (a twenty minute short called Kara, Star Of The World about a woman with a traumatic brain injury from a childhood ski accident), take any photo and video work I could get, start a 360 photography company, create social media channels to hype the build, parent two small kids, do a beautiful and excruciating tandem mountain bike ride across Scotland, drive my family on RV trips to Colorado/Arizona/Utah/Nevada/California/Wisconsin/Minnesota/Michigan/Florida, attempt to write a novel and adopt a puppy.The above may read as humble brag, it is not.