This seems to follow the general overall trend of lower cost areas winning at the expense of those with a high costs of living.

It has two units, but the house is only a legal one family, looking to possibly purchase it and live in one of the units and rent out the other, one as a Airbnb or just as a regular rental would need to get some kind of financing to make this purchase by being only a legal one family a conventional mortgage I think would be out of the question.

As to your point about confusion in the future, it's our policy to leave the conversation and thread open and available for anyone to read, they can gather all of the information and make an informed decision for themselves based on ALL the information provided.

List your property on corporate rental sites like Blueground, Zeus Living, and Furnished Finder to attract high-income tenants. 

If you are buying a home to live in - I would suggest finding a good realtor in your market.

**For context I house hacked for about a year after she passed away but couldn't live in that house anymore and sold it.

Purchase price: $45,000 Sale price: $175,000 I lived here for a few years then when I was married it became a rental.

I don't live in Georgia but I own a few townhomes there for rent,.   3bed/2.5 baths - areas like Acworth and Marietta.    

Not a huge con, but nobody prefers to live on a busy road when everything else is equal.

I pay about $2500 a year for each of my partnership returns with my CPA regardless of whether it’s a $1M deal or a $5M deal.I would save the partnership conversation for if and when you are doing much bigger deals.