welcome, would love to connect and network. congrats on the move

Are you both friends and have unique skill sets and are breaking up the duties of investing based on those skills?

Interesting, I am an active investor, we also have a team and ask OOS clients almost the opposite: we require them to come to Milwaukee and check out some neighborhoods and houses together in order to make sure we are on the same page.

You can do the same to estimate rents for a midterm rental by going to the Furnished Finder stats page for your city.

I don't see a national rent control law ever coming into law - aside from the fact that there's just no need for it, there's way too many things working against it - Congress, constitutional law, lobbyists, etc.

I think that you have to take what the market gives you when it comes to house-hacking. 

They will go up to 100% loan to value or LTV (or used to). 

Quote from @Luke Tetreault: My Fiancé and I will be wrapping up our 2nd year of investing part time in the next couple of months.

As we wrap up the year and look ahead to 2025, the real estate market continues to present unique challenges and opportunities for investors, brokers, and lenders alike.

I was thinking that the very thin hard carpet could serve as a sound insulation layer, and just installing click together LVP right over the thin carpet and the thin hard stick on tiles.