Marcus & Millichap’s report also mentions the importance of universities to Pittsburgh’s rental market, “The considerable number of universities in Pittsburgh will provide a diverse hiring pool for the area’s growing tech sector in 2017 and beyond.

Similarly, My mother-in-law went to live in assisted living homes rather than us having a guest house in the backyard of our current home where we could have hired a nurse full time to be here with her to take care of her at our home.

Hiring a contractor to assist with repairs and a property management company to manage rental.

With that being said, in a worst case scenario, you can always hire a property management company to handle the day to day items if it comes to that. 

I'm calculating for prop management even though I would likely owner-operate because I need to make something off the deal if I am focused on cashflow, especially if I scale and actually need to hire a manager.Given that interest rates in the area are about 7% and prices for single family and small multifamily have doubled (and tripled) in 7 years, the barrier feels way higher than it really should be.

Banks must approve a short sale for a short sale to take place, and banks hire appraisers and other real estate agents to perform broker price opinions (BPOs), or estimated values of the home.The goal would be to negotiate with the seller before the home becomes a short sale. 

The hurricane exacerbated the already long permitting timelines but the city was working on hiring more inspectors and others in the building department to keep up with the building boom we've seen over the last several years. 

If you just hire the cheapest or first PMC you speak with and it turns into a bad experience, please don’t assume ALL PMC’s are bad and start trashing PMC’s in general.

I'd like to keep savings and be able to hire out some of the work (something we have not done in the past).My thoughts are to put both into an LLC and look for investors or a business loan, and purchase and move to a new home.

Wouldn't mind becoming a millionaire from this as well....Should I hire a few ppl to scale the house flipping hustle (marketing, lead acquisition..ect)?