Coaching can absolutely 10x your business, but theres always a risk of a bad experience.

Phoenix has a pretty diverse market, and while there’s no official A/B/C/D breakdown map, you can generally categorize areas based on price points, rental demand, and appreciation potential.For BRRRR, you’ll want to focus on places where you can still find properties at a reasonable price, add value through renovations, and get solid rental returns.

I would say depending on what you do jobs can be less plentiful in RI. 

In Columbus, you can still find the 1% rule and there's amazing appreciation potential due to how much population growth, job growth, and companies moving/developing there (recently Anduril just announced another 4,000 jobs coming to Columbus Ohio on top of Intel, Google, Amazon, FB, Nationwide, Ohio State University, etc.).

It sounds like you are already leaning towards selling the duplexes so you can retire and have cash on hand.

Plus, they can give you the lowdown on the whole process and help you every step of the way.You've got this!

I am sure the further West you go the more likely that you can make a house hack work.

If they don't have it today, they can vote to implement it. 

You can do both simultaneously, but the former is much more challenging than the latter. 

Happy to chat about what it’s like investing out of state and I can certainly make some introductions there if you want.