Ideally, it would not need something like Zapier to connect tools, as that adds to the costs and can be clunky. 

These strategies reduce living expenses, offer easier financing options, and are ideal for college towns, urban centers, or large employers.

In today's world you need to be about 28-35% down on properties to be gross cash flow positive, closer to 40-42% to be truly net cash flow positive(i.e 50% of your income goes to maintaining the property, other 50% is actually profit).My recommendation is to buy ideally a 4/3 SFR that's a starter-friendly one in a good area, and rent it out by the room.

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What is the most pain free (and, ideally, tax-free) way to accomplish this?

Ideally completing light renovations like this shouldn't take long and you should  have a low holding cost on the hard money loan (if you used debt) and make a higher profit on the sale or have more flexibility on the payoff when you refinance  Plan on long-term and hold.

This option may not be ideal if cash flow would be so very small, or difficult to find cash flow property due to high interest, because if there it isn’t cash flow property loan won’t be approved. 

Ideally this would be a multi-family property that I can live in and rent out the other units.

Class B - Class C, anywhere in GA would be ideal but open to anywhere to invest.

Three beers and six hours of folding can not be my life if I want to get to my ideal volume which would be around 1-2k per month once I'm able to afford the list and the postage.