This is perfectly fine if you are going to be living there a long time, but I see people who use a home as a stepping stool home to a larger home in future and make it very customized to their liking but then when try and sell it, it does not appeal to the masses.

I am trying to automate my data collection through excel. My thought is to take a compiled list of property addresses saved in Excel and then run data scrape from Zillow and Redfin on each of those addresses, pulling ...

You state that you have 20% - 25% equity position for safety, but you don't based on the information you gave. 

Are you trying to narrow down the perfect property type for your first coliving investment?

You just have to deal with lead base paint inspections and random rental inspections now though.

We're willing to live almost anywhere in the greater Sacramento area based on what we can afford, provided of course that the property is in a decent neighborhood that has a good chance of attracting responsible tenants.As for budget, I believe we could get a conventional loan for properties up to $600k, but my strong preference is to find a distressed property (or seller!)

Land is 40 mins from Killington 15 mins from Brandon Vermont (the perfect Vermont town) 20 mins from Middlebury. 

Quote from @Salvatore Ross: When it comes to finding the perfect property to manage/co-host, what’s on your must-have list? 

There's no perfect software out there.

The only reason we don't qualify for traditional lending is because I took some time off to help my terminally ill father, and my husband has been in a commission-based role for less than a year (the lender said you need 2 years of history for that).