Look for a proven market and make it your backyard. 

If you’re looking to invest in your backyard, it helps to network with as many locals in the industry as you can.

Look into crime maps, and do the old fashioned thing of getting in a car and driving the market if it's not in your back yard.

The only situation when the stairs have to be used on the top floor is when going downstairs to the backyard.  

The backyard has a full outdoor kitchen, hot tub and a pool but... 

Ideas for some of the paragraphs: - Future Setting: where you live, what you see from your front porch or backyard, what your kitchen/gym look like. - Family: Kids? 

That's when the not-so-nice kid with a backpack of toy's often runs into a not-so-happy "big brother" with a "baseball bat".... 

Those that cannot weather the storm get wiped out.Having cashflow positive properties provides a margin of safety you just do not have with negative cashflow.Why are you focused on buying in your backyard? 

Detached: A separate structure like a tiny house, guest house, or mother in-law suite in the backyard.2.

Quote from @Ryan Duphorn: I'm currently house hacking a single family home that has a 572 sqft detached garage in the backyard.