It’s a popular way for new investors to dip their toes into real estate because it allows you to generate rental income while reducing or even eliminating your monthly mortgage payment.While house hacking can be done with single-family homes (by renting out rooms), multifamily properties, such as duplexes, triplexes, and fourplexes, take the concept to the next level.

There are a few more options, but those are the most popular. 

Long before you NEW investors with computers and the WHOLESALING of homes became popular.

there is  a reason this paper trades as such a low value.at least when you invest say with a HML right there in Denver your assets your loaning against are rock solid.. not some defunct little house in some little OHIO town that died 30 years ago and is never coming back.. 

That is great you are in nursing, one popular strategy we see a lot lately is renting to traveling nurses using a "mid-term" rental strategy.

Too many investors overpaid for STRs in popular vacation destinations and painted themselves into a corner where the property only works as an STR.

Just about as popular as BlockBuster Video's Late Fee.There's a completely different movement in MF charging called "low power L2". 

Appfolio, Rentvine, and Buildium are all popular. 

ADUs seem to be really popular in California, depending on location. 

For higher yields, buying into short-term rentals in popular areas could be lucrative.