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Looking for a house we could house hack, had an incredibly low interest rate on mortgage and house has increased in value about 42%, an estimated 180k in equity.

Historically, the average days on market (DOM) for rental properties only increases by about 6 days during November and December.

This is where your focus should be, not buying section 8 rentals or focusing solely on increasing your portfolio by 2x, 3x etc.

This decision increased our budget from $15K to $45K, but it turned out to be a wise investment.

The increased risk is generated by the fact that the owners are relying on the validity of the tenancy in common Agreement for their usage rights, and it is possible to imagine legal circumstances under which this validity might be undermined.- If the subdivider or someone with relationship to subdivider sells, a public report must be done.

My terms are identical to yours as far as the 1-year lease with 3 options to renew (for them), 3% yearly rent increase, etc.

I've heard horror stories that it's usually impossible due to the "burden placed on the municipality" but could really never understand what that burden was... most people living in those units wouldn't be using the school systems so aside from maybe an increased volume in emergency medical situations I can not understand that statement? 

Once the property is sold however we will be ok and our incomings are due to increase the following year.

PS is revolutionary because of how it has simplified access to all of the various data points investors need to make a decision and because of this its extremely popular.You do not want to be using a popular lead source to increase deals because everyones chasing the same deals.And nothing will change with there data because there business model forces them to have to buy and license the data they get which means waiting for the county/databroker to send it to them which guarantees anyone using PS data will be behind the counties, only getting a fraction of the leads and getting those late leads the same time as everyone else.How do you get access to the leads first.