Hi @Leonard La Rocca III welcome to BPWith a goal to house hack your option will be much better and tremendously more favorable.1. $50k gets you the house but leaves you very little room for value add. 

As you mentioned those specific details about MTRs geared toward traveling healthcare professionals, these are things I think would help us tremendously as landlords because we play both roles.

There's been a tremendous amount of new home construction in our area, even before Covid and the new houses have very small yards with no parking besides their 2-car garages.

If it works, the cashflow is tremendous.

As someone born and raised in Cleveland, I've witnessed the tremendous growth in Northeast Ohio firsthand.

We have a tremendous amount of resources and expertise within the brokerage. 

I have seen a tremendous difference in terms of how my property performs now. 

There is a tremendous amount of bad information being spread here, so be careful who you're taking advice from.  1. 

many houses in the midwest, for example, are very old and need major rehabs.i personally think out of state investing is more difficult than advertised, and much more difficult in the current investing environment, with: prices high; interest rates high; tremendous demand for inventory, by both investors and retail buyers; and good PMs, contractors, etc. booked up.here's a really thoughtful thread with the experience of another CA investor and lots of different responses:https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/12/topics/1215726-break...and here are some threads about how it can very easily go wrong:https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/48/topics/1159104-overl...https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/963/topics/1195280-expe...https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/48/topics/1160450-run-i...https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/48/topics/1137397-balti...finally, you also said you "don't have a lot of money to start with." 

The potential here is tremendous in many different ways.